Script to create a website in apache in a LAMP stack.

createapachesite

#!/bin/bash

# permissions
if [ "$(whoami)" != "root" ]; then
	echo "Not enough privileges. Run this with sudo."
	exit
fi

echo Please, enter website domain [of the form domainname.dev]
read NAME
echo "Creating the configuration file"
echo "<VirtualHost *:80>
            DocumentRoot /var/www/html/$NAME
            ServerName $NAME
            ServerAlias www.$NAME
        </VirtualHost>" >> /etc/apache2/sites-available/$NAME.conf

echo "Enabling the site"
a2ensite $NAME

echo "Adding site to hosts file"
printf '127.0.0.1   %s\n' $NAME >> /etc/hosts

echo "Restarting Apache"
service apache2 restart

echo "Complete!"

exit