Add VirtualServer automatically to Apache

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Hi,

Currently, I add a VirtualServer to Apache manually for each site I want to host.

Is there any way to add it programmatically? Means create a VirtualServer, Create a directory in /var/www/ and copy some files into it.

Is there any API to do so?

I’m running VirtualMin/Webmin but that is also a manual process. Anything to automate all this?

sitemist1 · Answer

@Andrew , thank you for the code.

Andrew SB · Answer

There isn’t any API, but it is certainly something you could script. Something like this would handle the basic use case:


#!/bin/bash

if [ ! -n “$1” ]; then
 echo “No host set.”
 exit
fi

echo “Creating new VirtualHost /var/www/$1/”

touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/$1

mkdir /var/www/$1

cat << EOF > /etc/apache2/sites-available/$1

 ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost 
 ServerName $1

 DocumentRoot /var/www/$1/
 
 Options FollowSymLinks
 AllowOverride None
 
 
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
 AllowOverride None
 Order allow,deny
 allow from all
 

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

 ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
 LogLevel warn
 CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

EOF

a2ensite $1
service apache2 reload

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Add VirtualServer automatically to Apache