Apache setup virtual hosts for multiple urls

Question

I have the Bitnami Wampstack installed running 2 different websites, each with two different URLs. The virtual hosts are set up as follows:

NameVirtualHost *:83
NameVirtualHost www.first.co.za:83
NameVirtualHost www.first.net:83

<VirtualHost www.first.co.za:83>
  ServerName www.first.co.za:83
  DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/BitNami WAMPStack/apache2/htdocs/joomla2"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost www.second.net:83>
  ServerName *:83
  DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/BitNami WAMPStack/apache2/htdocs/joomla"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost www.second.co.za:83>
  ServerName www.second.co.za:83
  DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/BitNami WAMPStack/apache2/htdocs/joomla"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost www.first.net:83>
  ServerName www.first.net:83
  DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/BitNami WAMPStack/apache2/htdocs/joomla2"
</VirtualHost>

Three of the URLs redirect correctly, but the fourth, www.first.co.za, displays the website for www.second.net, which seems to be default. What is wrong with my configuration?

Answer 1

Since you only really have two sites, I'd recommend to only set up two virtual hosts and do the rest with aliases, like this:

NameVirtualHost *:83

<VirtualHost *:83>
ServerName www.first.net
ServerAlias www.first.co.za
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/BitNami WAMPStack/apache2/htdocs/joomla2"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:83>
ServerName www.second.net
ServerAlias www.second.co.za
ServerAlias *
DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/BitNami WAMPStack/apache2/htdocs/joomla"
</VirtualHost>

This removes the redundancies and makes for clearer reading, plus it's easier to maintain.