> Eric C: You can't make the catch-all vhost also be a reachable name-based > vhost, with those rewrite rules. Create an additional one > solely for that purpose. > Jeroen G: Get rid of all the rewrite junk and just set a dummy servername; > this will catch ALL undefined hostnames. > Then Redirect / to the correct vhost. Ah ha! The issue was that doing "ServerAlias *" crashes Apache with no error log. ServerAlias apparently needs more than just a single wildcard character. Putting the below <VirtualHost> entry after the last <VirtualHost> works great! Sweet. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName my-catch-all-dummy-domain.com ServerAlias *.com *.net *.org *.co *.mobi *.info *.me *.us *.biz *.tv *.ws RewriteEngine On RewriteRule .* http://www.mydomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log combined </VirtualHost> Now I cannot do the same thing for the 443 virtual host section - adding the below <VirtualHost> section crashes Apache with the below strange error: [Thu Jun 02 04:55:13 2011] [error] Illegal attempt to re-initialise SSL for server (theoretically shouldn't happen!) <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName my-catch-all-dummy-domain-SSL.com ServerAlias *.com *.net *.org *.co *.mobi *.info *.me *.us *.biz *.tv *.ws RewriteEngine On RewriteRule .* https://www.mydomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log combined </VirtualHost> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx