Apache HTTPD VirtualHost ~ story of default route opted

virtualhost01.conf

# Multiple VirtualHosts Entry can be made to handle different internal servers serving via single external node
# Since it picks up first VirtualHost as default route... all unhandled requests served by first VirtualHost

NameVirtualHost *:80
ServerName servernode

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.about.server.node
  ServerAlias about.server.node

  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/about
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.blog.server.node
  ServerAlias blog.server.node

  <Location />
    ProxyPass                    http://www.server01.node/blog
    ProxyPassReverse             http://www.server01.node/blog
    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath   /blog /
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.projects.server.node
  ServerAlias projects.server.node

  <Location />
    ProxyPass                    http://www.server02.node/projects
    ProxyPassReverse             http://www.server02.node/projects
    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath   /projects /
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

virtualhost02.conf

# If you just get left with one VirtualHost... all requests get left up to be served by it

NameVirtualHost *:80
ServerName servernode

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.projects.server.node
  ServerAlias projects.server.node

  <Location />
    ProxyPass                    http://www.server02.node/projects
    ProxyPassReverse             http://www.server02.node/projects
    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath   /projects /
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

virtualhost03.conf

# Since it picks up first VirtualHost as default route... something like this could be made to work
# explicitly providing a _default_:80 to spare Server the ambiguity

NameVirtualHost *:80
ServerName servernode

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/404
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.about.server.node
  ServerAlias about.server.node

  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/about
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.blog.server.node
  ServerAlias blog.server.node

  <Location />
    ProxyPass                    http://www.server01.node/blog
    ProxyPassReverse             http://www.server01.node/blog
    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath   /blog /
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.projects.server.node
  ServerAlias projects.server.node

  <Location />
    ProxyPass                    http://www.server02.node/projects
    ProxyPassReverse             http://www.server02.node/projects
    ProxyPassReverseCookiePath   /projects /
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>