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?

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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