Automatically creating new virtual hosts with Nginx

nginx-vhost.sh

# Script by: Seb Dangerfield - sebdangerfield.me.uk
# http://www.sebdangerfield.me.uk/2011/03/automatically-creating-new-virtual-hosts-with-nginx-bash-script/
NGINX_CONFIG='/etc/nginx/sites-available'
NGINX_SITES_ENABLED='/etc/nginx/sites-enabled'
WEB_DIR='/var/www'
SED=`which sed`
CURRENT_DIR=`dirname $0`
 
if [ -z $1 ]; then
	echo "No domain name given"
	exit 1
fi
DOMAIN=$1
 
# check the domain is roughly valid!
PATTERN="^([[:alnum:]]([[:alnum:]\-]{0,61}[[:alnum:]])?\.)+[[:alpha:]]{2,6}$"
if [[ "$DOMAIN" =~ $PATTERN ]]; then
	DOMAIN=`echo $DOMAIN | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
	echo "Creating hosting for:" $DOMAIN
else
	echo "invalid domain name"
	exit 1
fi
 
#Replace dots with underscores
SITE_DIR=`echo $DOMAIN | $SED 's/\./_/g'`
 
# Now we need to copy the virtual host template
CONFIG=$NGINX_CONFIG/$DOMAIN.conf
sudo cp $CURRENT_DIR/virtual_host.template $CONFIG
sudo $SED -i "s/DOMAIN/$DOMAIN/g" $CONFIG
sudo $SED -i "s!ROOT!$WEB_DIR/$SITE_DIR!g" $CONFIG
 
# set up web root
sudo mkdir $WEB_DIR/$SITE_DIR
sudo chown nginx:nginx -R $WEB_DIR/$SITE_DIR
sudo chmod 600 $CONFIG
 
# create symlink to enable site
sudo ln -s $CONFIG $NGINX_SITES_ENABLED/$DOMAIN.conf
 
# reload Nginx to pull in new config
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload
 
# put the template index.html file into the new domains web dir
sudo cp $CURRENT_DIR/index.html.template $WEB_DIR/$SITE_DIR/index.html
sudo $SED -i "s/SITE/$DOMAIN/g" $WEB_DIR/$SITE_DIR/index.html
sudo chown nginx:nginx $WEB_DIR/$SITE_DIR/index.html
 
echo "Site Created for $DOMAIN"