Server Alias With wildcard subdomain

Question

I am using WordPress network subdomain setup. I had to put *.mydomain.com as a server alias but now I also have a site subdomain.mydomain.com that leads to another directory. Is there a way of doing this since when I type subdomain.mydomain.com it just loads the WordPress sign up page.

I do have a virtualhost setup for it.

rightstuff · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-31T13:22:54.437

13

I'm assuming that you have two VirtualHosts:

VH for WP that hosts *.mydomain.com
VH for independant webiste that hosts subdomain.mydomain.com

Make sure that your subdomain.mydomain.com VirtualHost is loaded or located in file before the VirtualHost with ServerAlias of *.mydomain.com.

Apache will use the 1st VH it finds that matches ServerName/Alias.

Then restart Apache.

Edit:

In file it should be...

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName subdomain.mydomain.com
  ...
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName mydomain.com
  ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
  ...
</VirtualHost>

You can get the default VH and load order by running: httpd -S

edited May 31 '11 at 13:22

answered May 30 '11 at 22:57

rightstuff

620
1
5
6

I did this and the subdomain.mydomain.com loads no matter what. Can you show me an example of the vhost config i need – xLRDxREVENGEx May 31 '11 at 05:32
xLRDxREVENGEx, edited. – rightstuff May 31 '11 at 13:25
Do I use documentroot or directory – xLRDxREVENGEx May 31 '11 at 15:19
xLRDxREVENGEx, I'm not sure what you mean? Each VH block should have a DocumentRoot, and a Directory block giving access and override permissions (and options) for that DocumentRoot. – rightstuff May 31 '11 at 15:44
Ok well i had this setup before and any time i viewed any site that had mydomain.com it always went to the same page – xLRDxREVENGEx May 31 '11 at 20:47
xLRDxREVENGEx, it sounds like both of your VHs had the same exact DocumentRoot. That or, you mean that all your *.mydomain.com subs wne to the same DocumentRoot, which they would since it's the same VH ... unless you use VirtualDocumentRoot instead. – rightstuff May 31 '11 at 22:38
Thanks that was very helpful. Nothing is in the apache logs. – Darth Egregious Nov 18 '14 at 17:25

Server Alias With wildcard subdomain

1 Answers1