Multiple VirtualHosts with wildcards

Question

I have a three VirtualHosts. The second two utilize wildcards.

• www.example.com
• *.sites.example.com (i.e. foo.sites.example.com)
• *.*.sites.example.com (i.e. foo.bar.sites.example.com)

For the second two, I tried:

ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com

and

ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.*.example.com

Problem is *.example.com gobbles up *.*.example.com. As maybe a hack, I put *.*.example.com before *.example.com in my httpd.conf file.

Is what I did the proper way to do this, or is there a more official way?

Answer 1

You did it the right way. Apache always takes the first VirtualHost if multiple entries match.

For more information about Virtual Host Matching look at the official documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/details.html