: What is wrong with this Apache httpd.conf file for vhosts? What is wrong here? NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.apples.co.uk DocumentRoot /var/www/apples.co.uk RewriteEngine

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FIRST:


First defined VirtualHost will be used as catch all for unknown domain names.
Apache does not know about apples.co.uk -- it only knows about apples.co.uk. So it uses first Virtual Host to serve apples.co.uk. Redirect will work OK here.
Apache does not know about bananas.co.uk -- it only knows about bananas.co.uk. So it uses first Virtual Host to serve bananas.co.uk .. which is apples.co.uk. Therefore it will be redirected to apples.co.uk.

To solve the above issue: Add ServerAlias apples.co.uk line inside first virtual host and ServerAlias bananas.co.uk into second one. If you want to catch ANY subdomain as well -- add this line as well: ServerAlias *.apples.co.uk (the same for bananas.co.uk).



SECOND:

The RewriteRule URL will include leading slash if declared in server config / virtual host context. If this rewrite rule would be declared in .htaccess it would work fine, but here (inside VirtualHost declaration) you need to remove slash after domain name in RewriteRule target. That is why you are having double slash after domain name on redirect.

You can also speed up host matching a bit by replacing relatively expensive regex by simple string comparison: !^www.bananas.co.uk$ => !=www.bananas.co.uk.



NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName apples.co.uk ServerAlias apples.co.uk
DocumentRoot /var/www/apples.co.uk
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.apples.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.apples.co.uk [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName bananas.co.uk ServerAlias bananas.co.uk
ServerAlias *.bananas.co.uk
DocumentRoot /var/www/bananas.co.uk
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !=www.bananas.co.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.bananas.co.uk [L,R=301]
</VirtualHost>





I guess the first problem is caused by the default server setting. How
do I remove that? Does there need to be a default?


Create VirtualHost for some fake domain name .. and place it first (before any other <VirtualHost> declarations) -- then you will see Apache's error page when such unknown domain name will be requested.

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