Apache server alias wildcard
Something I've learnt recently that I might be the last to know but you can use wildcards (*) in the ServerAlias in Apache. In the past I've done something along the lines of
1<VirtualHost *:80>
2 ServerName example.com
3 ServerAlias www.example.com www.example.co.uk example.co.uk
4</VirtualHost>
2 ServerName example.com
3 ServerAlias www.example.com www.example.co.uk example.co.uk
4</VirtualHost>
Really all you need to do is:
1<VirtualHost *:80>
2 ServerName example.com
3 ServerAlias *.example.*
4</VirtualHost>
2 ServerName example.com
3 ServerAlias *.example.*
4</VirtualHost>
Hope this helps someone else
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Good to know, I've always just added additional ServerAlias lines for all my hostnames.
Thanks! I've always used the wildcard at the front of the expression, but it never quite worked correctly - eg *.example.com
@richard whats been up then? For local development you still need to set up the domains in the HOST file. So for *.example.com you'd want the following in the HOST urls to test it works
www.example.com
demo.example.com
beta.example.com
www.example.com
demo.example.com
beta.example.com
