Add VirtualServer automatically to Apache

Posted on May 16, 2014

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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Andrew SB

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: <pre> #!/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 </pre>