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Apache - automatically route all subdomains to their related directory
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APACHE

How to get "anysubdomain.mydomain.com" automatically routed to a directory?

  1. enable mod_vhost_alias (create symlink in mods-enabled)
  2. create the following vhost configuration file /etc/apache/sites-available/subdomains
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mydomain.com
    ServerAlias *.mydomain.com
    VirtualDocumentRoot /path/to/webspace/%1/public
    SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV dev
</VirtualHost>

3.) to enable, create symlinks for subdomains in /sites-enabled

4.) restart apache

Pro tipp no. 1: I set VirtualDocumentRoot to /var/www/ where I only have a load of soft links to my actual projects.

Pro tipp no. 2: %1 will stands for the name of the subdomain only meaning, if someone opens sub.mydomain.com, apache will look for /path/to/webspace/sub/public. if you use %0 the whole domain name is used /path/to/webspace/sub.mydomain.com/public

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