Question

on my localhost I develop modules for a cms.

Hence I have a lot of urls like so:

cart.cfox.dev  
blog.cfox.dev  
orders.cfox.dev  

which map to

/var/www/cfox/modules/cart
/var/www/cfox/modules/blog
/var/www/cfox/modules/orders

Each time I setup a new module I create a new virtual host.

but they are all the same with one word changed.

What I was wondering is if there is a way to have one virtual host deal with all of these.

The other one is my hosts file is full of

127.0.0.1 cart.cfox.dev
127.0.0.1 blog.cfox.dev
127.0.0.1 orders.cfox.dev

Can we do the same thing there?

Answer 1

I think the best way to handle these virtualhosts is a VirtualDocumentRoot. Specially with Apache 2.4 where, as I know, the DocumentRoot is not wrong anymore.

UseCanonicalName Off
VirtualDocumentRoot /var/www/cfox/modules/%1

<Directory "/var/www/cfox/modules/*">
    # Apache < 2.4
    <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
        Allow from all
    </IfModule>
    # Apache >= 2.4
    <IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
        Require all granted
    </IfModule>
</Directory>

Can we do the same thing there?

Unfortunately, no.