Add VirtualServer automatically to Apache

May 16, 2014 2.3k views
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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?
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asb MOD May 16, 2014
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

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

        ServerName $1



        DocumentRoot /var/www/$1/

        <Directory />

                Options FollowSymLinks

                AllowOverride None

        </Directory>

        <Directory /var/www/>

                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

                AllowOverride None

                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 ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

EOF



a2ensite $1

service apache2 reload
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sitemist1 May 17, 2014
@Andrew, thank you for the code.
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