Quickly add a new WP install to your server

new-site.sh

#! /bin/sh

# This script assumes a few things
# 1. You are running Nginx
# 2. WP-CLI is installed
# 3. Your user is part of the www-data group
# 4. Nginx_ensite is installed (https://github.com/perusio/nginx_ensite)
# 5. nginx-wp-common.conf is installed at `/etc/nginx/nginx-wp-common.conf`

# How to use
# 1. Place this file in your www root
# 2. Make this file executable `chmod +x new-site.sh`
# 3. Create a database for the new install
# 4. Run `sudo ./new-site.sh`
# 5. Follow the prompts
# 6. Point the domain to your server
# 7. Have fun!


echo "Domain: "
read domain

echo "Importing? (y|n)"
read importing

echo "MySQL Database:"
read db_name

echo "MySql User:"
read db_user

echo "MySQL Password:"
read db_pass

echo "Database Prefix:"
read db_prefix

if [ $importing = "n" ]; then
	echo "Site Title:"
	read site_title

	echo "Admin User:"
	read admin_user

	echo "Admin Password:"
	read admin_password

	echo "Admin Email:"
	read admin_email
fi

mkdir -pv $domain/public $domain/log

cd $domain/public

wp core download --path=/var/www/$domain/public

wp core config --dbname=$db_name --dbuser=$db_user --dbpass=$db_pass --dbprefix=$db_prefix

if [ $importing = "n" ]; then
	wp core install --url=$domain --title="$site_title" --admin_user=$admin_user --admin_password=$admin_password --admin_email=$admin_email
fi

cd /var/www

chown -R www-data $domain
chgrp -R www-data $domain
find $domain -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find $domain -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

touch /etc/nginx/sites-available/$domain

cat > /etc/nginx/sites-available/$domain <<EOL
server {
	listen	80;
	server_name  $domain;
	root	/var/www/$domain/public;
	include	/etc/nginx/nginx-wp-common.conf;
}
EOL

nginx_ensite /etc/nginx/sites-available/$domain

service nginx reload

nginx-wp-common.conf

# nginx-wp-common.conf
#
# Contains a common configuration for use by nginx on a WordPress
# installation. This file should be included in any WordPress site
# nginx config with the following line:
#
#     include      /etc/nginx/nginx-wp-common.conf;
#
# See local-nginx-example.conf-sample for a full example
location / {
    index index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

# Weird things happened to me when I had gzip on, may need to try
# again in the future as it could have been related to many other
# factors - JF
gzip off;

# Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

# Handle all static assets by serving the file directly. Add directives 
# to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
    expires 24h;
    log_not_found off;
}

# this prevents hidden files (beginning with a period) from being served
location ~ /\.          { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }

# Pass uploaded files to wp-includes/ms-files.php.
rewrite /files/$ /index.php last;

if ($uri !~ wp-content/plugins) {
    rewrite /files/(.+)$ /wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 last;
}

# Rewrite multisite in a subdirectory '.../wp-.*' and '.../*.php'.
if (!-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^/[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+(/wp-.*) $1 last;
    rewrite ^/[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+.*(/wp-admin/.*\.php)$ $1 last;
    rewrite ^/[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+(/.*\.php)$ $1 last;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
    client_max_body_size 500M;
    try_files      $uri =404;

    # Include the fastcgi_params defaults provided by nginx
    include        /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 3600s;

    # SCRIPT_FILENAME is a required parameter for things to work properly,
    # but was missing in the default fastcgi_params on upgrade to nginx 1.4.
    # We define it here to be sure that it exists.
    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME         $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

    # Use the upstream for php5-fpm that we defined in nginx.conf
    fastcgi_pass   php;

    # And get to serving the file!
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
}