Shell script to add a vhost entry to your apache pointing to current folder, for quick local development setup. Some basic things have to be setuped, as local main domain, with a local certificate. Bases on a brewer apache installation.

add-apache-vhost

#!/bin/bash

#Config this according to your needs, all variables are currently mandatory
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#Your local main dev domain
MAIN_DOMAIN_NAME=".ls-boellmann.local"
#Path to cert apache uses
CERT_PATH="/usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/crt/boellmann_dev_local.crt"
#Path to key apache uses
KEY_PATH="/usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/crt/Julius_dev_local_neu.pem"
#Path to the vhost file that the config is appended to
VHOST_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/etc/apache2/2.4/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"
#no comment about this
FAVORITE_BROWSER="Google Chrome"

#Program starts here
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CURRENT_PATH="$(pwd)"

read -p "Please give the name of the subdomain:" SUB_DOMAIN_NAME
read -r -d '' CONFIG<<EOL

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerName ${SUB_DOMAIN_NAME}${MAIN_DOMAIN_NAME}
      Redirect permanent / https://${SUB_DOMAIN_NAME}${MAIN_DOMAIN_NAME}
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
     DocumentRoot "${CURRENT_PATH}"
     ServerName ${SUB_DOMAIN_NAME}${MAIN_DOMAIN_NAME}
     SSLEngine on
     SSLCertificateFile "${CERT_PATH}"
     SSLCertificateKeyFile "${KEY_PATH}"
</VirtualHost>
EOL
echo "${CONFIG}"
while true; do
    read -p "Do you wish to add this vhost entry?" yn
    case $yn in
        [Yy]* )
               cp -f ${VHOST_CONFIG_PATH} ${VHOST_CONFIG_PATH}.bk
               echo "${CONFIG}" >> "${VHOST_CONFIG_PATH}"
               sudo apachectl restart
               echo "New vhost set and server restarted"
               open -a "${FAVORITE_BROWSER}" "https://${SUB_DOMAIN_NAME}${MAIN_DOMAIN_NAME}"
               break;;
        [Nn]* ) exit;;
        * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";;
    esac
done