Subdomains pointing to a wildcard folder

Question

I recently got my domain name working fine with my server and managed to get subdomains pointing to specific folders. However I have just noticed a little problem. I have my /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default set to:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        VirtualDocumentRoot /local/www/%1
        ServerName *.dev.localhost
</VirtualHost>

and when I go to test.dev.mydomain.co.uk it displays the content of /local/www/test/ and that's great. However, I mistyped the domain and realise that test.mydomain.co.uk is also doing the exact same thing when you miss out the .dev.part. I don't want this to happen. Can anybody suggest any fixes?

Answer 1

If...

• The VirtualHost block above is the first one in your configuration, and
• There is no explicit match for, e.g., test.mydomain.co.uk

...then Apache will use the above VirtualHost block for test.mydomain.co.uk. That is, in the absence of an explicit match, Apache will use the first VirtualHost definition it finds. From the documentation:

If no matching ServerName or ServerAlias is found in the set of virtual hosts containing the most specific matching IP address and port combination, then the first listed virtual host that matches that will be used.

Answer 2

Solved the question:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    VirtualDocumentRoot /local/www/%1
    ServerName dev.mydomain.co.uk
    ServerAlias dev.mydomain.co.uk *.dev.mydomain.co.uk
</VirtualHost>

By using ServerAlias.