forwarding cname to vhost

I have vhost setup one tld and a sub domain (since they are in different directories).
ex.
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ServerName www.domain.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/www.domain.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/www.domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/sub/html
    ServerName sub.domain.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/sub.domain.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/sub.domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

when i use a cname "test.differentdomain.com" to pint to sub.domain.com, the request takes me domain.com ????? can someone help me ?
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edster9999Connect With a Mentor Commented:
The first doamin listed is the default one so if you go to www.anything.com and that redirects via a cname or a address to your server but it is not listed it will go into the first one.

add a serveralias to the second one to catch it....

ServerAlias test.differentdomain.com

or even

ServerAlias *.differentdomain.com, differentdomain.com

The *. will miss it if they do not specify a subdomain so you would need this if they only went to http://differentdomain.com

so the config will now look like this :

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ServerName www.domain.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/www.domain.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/www.domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/sub/html
    ServerName sub.domain.com
    ServerAlias *.differentdomain.com, differentdomain.com
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/sub.domain.com-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/sub.domain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

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urgollCommented:
You also need to specify :

NameVirtualHost *:80

This is a required statement that enables name-based virtualhosting.

Please refer to Apache's documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost
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shadow2007Author Commented:
yep i figured that after I posted this :) thanks anyway for the spot on answer :)
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