By ransom on

Ok I'm tired of rewriting the same stuff for apache over and over.. so I'm guna make a qdh (quick 'n dirty hack) to generate stuff for me.. yaa!

ok let's startout with a skeleton file the name should be skel.vhost

<VirtualHost *> 
   ServerName site_name
   ServerAlias site_alias
   ServerAdmin admin_contact

   DocumentRoot base_path
   <Directory />
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      allow from all
   </Directory>
   <Directory base_path>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      allow from all
   </Directory>

   ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
   <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
      AllowOverride None
      Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
   </Directory>

   ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
   LogLevel Warn
   CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
   ServerSignature On

</VirtualHost>

now let's create our script to update & change all this funkie stuff

#!/bin/bash

#let's clear things up
clear
#lets make sure we wanta
echo "Are you sure you want to add a new virtualHost and restart apache2? Hit enter to continue, anything and enter to quit."
read choice
if [ -n $choice]; then 
exit 0 
fi

while ! [ $confirm ]; do
   #echo we will need a site name so let's ask for one
   echo "What site name/url would you like to configure?"  
   read site_name 
   echo "What if any aliases for this url do you want?"
   read site_alias
   echo "Who is yer administrative contact for this address/url?"
   read site_contact
   echo "What will be the base path for this site?"
   read base_path

   #lets confirm everything
   clear
   
   
done

sed \
   -e "s/site_name/$site_name/g" \
   -e "s/site_alias/$site_alias/g" \
   -e "s/site_contact/$site_contact/g" \
   -e "s/base_path/$base_path/g

# we could probably add crontabs I'll give it a try later
# but for now I wont


#exit nice
exit 0

I accept no liability for you using this.. I was having some problems with apache.. so I wrote a shell script to ease up some of the vhost configuration problems I was having. This prity much automates it.. It's probably not the best way to do this, nore will (I know this for a fact) work for everyone. I use debian and it's got difrent paths's than redhat and others. So Some will have to tune it to work for them.

I am only submiting it because it's kinda nifty, and someone else may be able to use it. I do ask one thing.. if you use this and edit it.. please repost it here (or where ever apropreot) and let others from your experience.

Let the flames begin!