Script to automate creating virtualhosts on apache2 on a unix machine.

mkvhost.sh

#!/bin/bash

# hosts folder
HOSTSDIR=/Users/ethan/Sites

# DOMAIN to set up, ex: working.dev
DOMAIN=$1

# User to set permissions for - the user account
USER=ethan
GROUP=staff

# Where to put new host file
HOSTSFILEDIR=/Users/ethan/Sites/vhosts/ 

TEMPLATE="<VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerAdmin admin@$DOMAIN
      ServerName $DOMAIN
      ServerAlias $DOMAIN
      DocumentRoot $HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/public
      <Directory />
        AllowOverride All
      </Directory>
      <Directory $HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/public>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride all
        Require all granted
      </Directory>
      ErrorLog $HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/logs/error.log
      LogLevel error
      CustomLog $HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/logs/access.log combined
    </VirtualHost>"

if [ "$(whoami)" != 'root' ]; then
  echo $"You have no permission to run $0 as non-root user. Use sudo."
    exit 1;
fi

# Create folder for new DOMAIN
if [ -d "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN" ]
then
  echo "Host directory already created."    
else
  mkdir "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN"
  echo "New host directory created."
fi

if [ -d "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/public" ]
then
  echo "Public directory already created."
else
  mkdir "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/public"
  echo "New host public directory created."
fi

if [ -d "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/logs" ]
  mkdir "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/logs"
  touch "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/logs/error.log"
  touch "$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/logs/access.log"
  echo "Created logs folder, error log and access log."
then
  echo "Logs folder already exists."
fi


# Create new host file
if [ -d "$HOSTSFILEDIR" ]
then
  touch "$HOSTSFILEDIR/$DOMAIN"
  echo "$TEMPLATE" >> "$HOSTSFILEDIR/$DOMAIN"
  echo "The host $DOMAIN has been added to the host file and pointed to 127.0.0.1"
else
  echo "The hosts file directory does not exist or you do not have permission."
  exit 1;
fi

echo "Updating File Permissions on document root."
chown -R $USER:$GROUP $HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN
chmod -R 751 $HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN

echo "Updating File Permissions on host file."
chown -R $USER:$GROUP $HOSTSFILEDIR/$DOMAIN
chmod -R 751 $HOSTSFILEDIR/$DOMAIN

# Update Hosts File
echo "127.0.0.1 $DOMAIN" >> /etc/hosts

echo "Restarting apache using apachectl."
apachectl restart

echo "Your new host '$DOMAIN' has been setup."
echo "Points to '$HOSTSDIR/$DOMAIN/public'."