Configuring subdomain using apache virtualhost problem

Question

I'm trying to use a virtualhost in my Apache configuration to setup a subdomain. My settings are:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName www.website.com
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
    ServerName wiki.website.com
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/dekiwiki"
</VirtualHost>

When I restart apache, both www.website.com and wiki.website.com go to the main website in /var/www/html.

Any help appreciated.

Solution 1

In VirtualHost have to use the same signature as in NameVirtualHost:

<VirtualHost *:80>

Solution 2

Here is how I do subdomains on my apache2 server...

NameVirtualHost *:80

# Many other hosts...

<VirtualHost servers.international-anarchy.com>
    ServerName servers.international-anarchy.com
    DocumentRoot "/http/international-anarchy.com/servers/"

    <Directory "/http/international-anarchy.com/servers/">
        Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Allow from all
        Order allow,deny
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost status.international-anarchy.com>
    ServerName status.international-anarchy.com
    DocumentRoot "/http/international-anarchy.com/status/"

    <Directory "/http/international-anarchy.com/status/">
        Options +Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Allow from all
        Order allow,deny
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

That is how I get apache2 to render the subdomains for each host correctly, and I place all of these settings in a virtual hosts file that is included directly from the main apache config.

Comments

[dunxd]

That looks ok to me. The config file you are using is definitely the one that Apache is using right? You've cleared the cache in your browser? You haven't set ServerName or ServerAlias anywhere else in the config?

[Admin]

Yes, because if I alter it to just having the wiki virtualhost, it appears. And if I change the order to having the wiki first, it only shows the wiki. No, the servername/alias are commented out of the main config. I can only get it to show either the wiki or the normal website at the moment.

[Urda]

VirtualMe, did you try setting it up as in my example? Be sure to reboot apache2 of course!

[Urda]

I prefer this method, as each virtual host declaration has the hostname built right into it, instead of a dozen <VirtualHost *> lines all over your config files. I also group the V-Hosts by domain name, then subdomain, all in alphabetical order... asite.com wiki.asite.com bsite.com wiki.bsite.com and so on!

[Mattias]

Thanks very much! I discovered this a few moments ago through searching a different forum. A relief that it's working now. I realised that the virtualhost wasn't being picked up when running httpd -S