Apache Named VirtualHosts with wildcards

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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:

            *:80>
 ServerName
            www.example.com


            *:80>
 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:

            *:80>
 ServerName
            example.com


            *:80>
 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 href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#servername" rel="nofollow
noreferrer">here.

This will work
though.

            *:80>
 ServerName
            example.com



            *:80>
 ServerName
            www.example.com

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