Apache2 subdomain redirects to main domain - apache

I have an EC2 instance setup running Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache. I have a single elastic IP serving multiple domains and subdomains all of which point to individual folders on the server. The problem I am having is unless the subdomain is explicitly set in my .conf it will redirect to the main domain. I can't seem to find a definitive answer here or in google.
I have a single .conf file residing in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ serving all of the domains and subdomains like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName mydomain.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mydomain.com
<Directory /var/www/html/mydomain.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName sub1.mydomian.com
ServerAlias www.sub1.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sub1.com
<Directory /var/www/html/sub1.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName sub2.mydomian.com
ServerAlias www.sub2.mydomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/sub2.com
<Directory /var/www/html/sub2.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#mydomain.com
ServerName mydomain2.com
ServerAlias www.mydomain2.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mydomain2.com
<Directory /var/www/html/mydomain2.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
So if I go to sub1.mydomain.com or sub2.mydomain.com it gets properly routed. But if I type sub3.mydomain.com which does not exist in my .conf file it gets redirected to mydomain.com. I do not want this behavior. How do I resolve this?

You need to enable name based virtualhosts. Add below line before your first virtual host and restart apache.
NameVirtualHost :80

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Wildcard subdomain not using correct conf file

I have a set up as follows:
All subdomains pointing to the server
sub1.example.com should load /var/www/sub1
sub2.example.com should load /var/www/sub2
Any random subdomain should load /var/www/shared
The problem is the shared.conf file is being ignored and instead using sub1 (or whichever one I move to the start of the .conf file list).
Here are my conf files in their order after running ls -lv
sub1.conf
sub2.conf
shared.conf
sub1.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName sub1.example.com
ServerAlias sub1.example.com
<Directory /var/www/sub1/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
RewriteEngine On
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/sub1
</VirtualHost>
sub2.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName sub2.example.com
ServerAlias sub2.example.com
<Directory /var/www/sub2/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
RewriteEngine On
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/sub2
</VirtualHost>
shared.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerAlias *.example.com
<Directory /var/www/shared/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
RewriteEngine On
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www/shared
</VirtualHost>
I have also tried adding a random subdomain to the shared.conf file for Server Name, i.e.
ServerName shared-random.example.com
And also
ServerName *.example.com
I have also made sure to restart apache.
So when I put in any subdomain, e.g. blabla.example.com it always goes to sub1.conf.
I understand that the behaviour is to default to the first one, but only if there isnt a match. Why isnt shared.conf being considered a match?
change filename from shared.conf to 000-shared.conf
use below config for 000-shared.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/shared
<Directory /var/www/shared>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
RewriteEngine On
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Multiple Websites on Apache2

I have my apache configured to have 2 websites setup. I have the following in my apache2.conf
Include /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/conf/app.conf
Include /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/conf/app.conf
Here are the app.conf for the 2 websites
Website1
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/htdocs
ServerName www.website1.com:80
ServerAlias website1.com
ErrorLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/log/error.log
CustomLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/log/access.log common
<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/htdocs">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/htdocs
ServerName website1.uat.com:80
ServerAlias website1.uat.com
ErrorLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/log/error.log
CustomLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/log/access.log common
<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/htdocs">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Website 2
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/htdocs
ServerName www.website2.com:80
ServerAlias www.website2.com
ErrorLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/log/error.log
CustomLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/log/access.log common
<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/htdocs">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/htdocs
ServerName website2.com:80
ServerAlias website2.com
ErrorLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/log/error.log
CustomLog /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/log/access.log common
<Directory "/opt/bitnami/apps/www.website2.com/htdocs">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Im testing these locally so i have my host setup below
xx.xxx.xx.xxx www.website1.com
xx.xxx.xx.xxx www.website2.com
When i go to www.website2.com, apache2 page pops up
When i go to www.website1.com, apache2 page pops up
When i go to www.website2.com/htdocs, i see the correct website and it works. When i got to www.website1.com/htdocs, i see website2. I dont understand why i am seeing website 2 here.
My first guess would be that you should remove the port :80 from ServerName and also change
<VirtualHost *>
to
<VirtualHost *:80>
Like so:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /opt/bitnami/apps/www.website1.com/htdocs
ServerName www.website1.com
...
As prerik says use "VirtualHost *:80"
Also if it is Apache HTTPD 2.2.x, it needs "NamedVirtualHosts *:80" defined "once" in the config when several virtualhosts are present using the same ip:port scheme, if you don't add this all your requests will land in the first defined virtualhost.

VHost for Subdomain Website

I'm using a Linux Server for my website www.domain.com
I want to create the subdomain www.test.domain.com for a test environment.
I started configuring the vhost-file.
<Directory /var/www/domain/>
AllowOverride None
Order Deny, Allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/domain/
ServerName domain.com
ServerAlias domain.com
ServerAlias www.domain.com
ServerAdmin support#domain.com
ErrorLog /var/ww/domain/
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
</IfModule>
<Directory /var/www/domain/
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow, deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
How can I edit the Vhost file for the subdomain www.test.domain.com in directory ,,/var/www/test/"?
A Sub-Domain is actually a separate domain. You will need to create a new VHost for Sub-Domain.
<Directory /var/www/test/>
AllowOverride None
Order Deny, Allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/test/
ServerName test.domain.com
ServerAlias testdomain.com
ServerAlias www.test.domain.com
ServerAdmin support#test.domain.com
ErrorLog /var/ww/test/
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
</IfModule>
<Directory /var/www/test/
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow, deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
You can set all your parameters as you like, separately for Sub-Domain.

Apache vhost not working for subdomains

I have this configuration but both url app.test.com & stage.test.com
redirect to same code/deployment
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName app.test.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Test-Prod/web
<Directory "/var/www/html/Test-Prod/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/test-prod__error_log
CustomLog logs/test-prod_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName stage.test.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/Test/web
<Directory "/var/www/html/Test/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog logs/test-website_error_log
CustomLog logs/test-website_access_log common
</VirtualHost>
The usual error for this is leaving out the NameVirtualHost directive if you're still using httpd 2.2
Add the following in your config file and it'll probably work
NameVirtualHost *.80
You might want to read the documentation for Named-based Virtual Host Support with httpd 2.2.
NameVirtualHost *.80
<VirtualHost localhost:80>
ServerName color
ServerAlias localhost
ServerPath "C:/wamp/www/subwww/color"
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
<Directory "C:/wamp/www/subwww/color">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
in above code, subdomain name is color
and the url is http://color.localhost/
if the operating system is windows then add "127.0.0.1 color.localhost" in "C:/windows/system32/dirvers/etc/hosts" with notepad run as administration

Named VirtualHost in apache overrides every other VirtualHosts

I have defined two VirtualHosts on Apache, and the problem is, one of them overrides the other one. i.e. when I try to reach the second address, the first one shows up.
Here is my first config:
ServerName www.example1.com
DocumentRoot /server/sites/example1
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#example1.com
DocumentRoot /server/sites/example1
ServerAlias example1.com
<Directory /server/sites/example1/>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And the second:
ServerName www.example2.tv
DocumentRoot /server/sites/tv/public/
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#example2.tv
DocumentRoot /server/sites/tv/public
<Directory /srver/sites/tv/public>
# This relaxes Apache security settings.
AllowOverride all
# MultiViews must be turned off.
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
When I load www.example2.tv, it still shows www.example1.com content.
example1 is written in PHP and example2 is Ruby on Rails.
You need to have the ServerName directive inside the VirtualHost configuration i.e.:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.example2.tv
ServerAdmin admin#example2.tv
DocumentRoot /server/sites/tv/public
<Directory /server/sites/tv/public>
# This relaxes Apache security settings.
AllowOverride all
# MultiViews must be turned off.
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
You can examine your configured VirtualHosts using apachectl -S - this will print a list of all the configured VirtualHosts and their corresponding config files