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Apache Named VirtualHosts with wildcards



I want to map www.example.com to a specific virtual host and then I want all other subdomains of example.com to go to another virtual host.




To do this I created these hosts:




  ServerName www.example.com



  ServerName example.com
  ServerAlias *.example.com




Now the selection of which host is served seems rather random. If I restart apache sometimes I will get one host and other times another.



What am I doing wrong?



Thanks!



Update:

If I run apache2ctl -S on this configuration I get this outpu:



VirtualHost configuration:
wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
*:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
         default server www.example.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/dev:3)
         port 80 namevhost www.example.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/dev:3)
         port 80 namevhost example.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/dev:22)



After much digging around I decided to disable the mono applications that I had running and low and behold it started serving files from the correct site. They did need to be entered in the order:




  ServerName example.com



  ServerName www.example.com




as suggested by Wizard.
To get my mono apps working I used "MonoAutoApplication enabled" within each virtual host. However I am not sure that this is the best option as on the mono site it says you shouldn't use auto hosting for asp.net mvc apps (which is what I am using). So far I can't see the downside though.


Answer



Update: * is valid syntax but not necessary. You can find out more here.



This will work though. 




   ServerName example.com




    ServerName www.example.com



The first directive will match everything that is not explicitly defined elsewhere.


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