A simple scripts that takes away the pain of creating VirtualHosts on my home Ubuntu server w/ Apache2

create_site.sh

#!/bin/bash

# A simple scripts that takes away the pain of creating VirtualHosts on my home Ubuntu server w/ Apache2
# by Arseniy Ivanov, freeatnet.com

WWW_ROOT='/var/www/'
SITE_CONFS='/etc/apache2/sites-available/'


host_name=''
echo -n 'Enter host name: '
read host_name

echo -n 'Determining DocumentRoot path for this hostname'
previous_path=''
path="$host_name"
while [ "$path" != "$previous_path" ]
	do
		echo -n '.'
		previous_path="$path"
		path=`echo "$path" | sed -r 's/([a-z0-9\-]+)\.(([a-z0-9\-]+\.)*([a-z0-9\-]+\.[a-z]+))((\/?(.*))*)$/\2\/\1\5/'`
	done;

echo ""
echo -n "Path is $path, is that correct? "
ans=''
read ans

if [ $ans != "y" ] && [ $ans != "Y" ];
	then
		echo -n "Enter the correct path: "
		read path
	fi

echo "Using path $WWW_ROOT$path as DocumentRoot."

mkdir -p $WWW_ROOT$path
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
	then
		echo "Failed to create DocumentRoot path, exiting"
		exit
	else
		if [ -d $WWW_ROOT$path ]
			then
				echo "We're good, folder at $WWW_ROOT$path exists."
			else
				echo "Weird, mkdir returned 0, but the folder is not there."
				exit
			fi
fi

echo -n "Setting permissions on DocumentRoot: "
chmod 755 $WWW_ROOT$path && chown www-data:www-data $WWW_ROOT$path

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
	then
		echo ""
		echo "Could not set correct permissions for some reason."
		exit
	else
		echo "Done."
	fi

echo -n "Creating and setting permissions on log folder: "
mkdir -p $WWW_ROOT'/logs/'$host_name \
	&& chmod 644 $WWW_ROOT'/logs/'$host_name \
	&& chown www-data:www-data $WWW_ROOT'/logs/'$host_name

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
	then
		echo "Something failed"
		exit
	else
		echo "Ok."
fi

echo -n "Creating web site config: "

if [ ! -f $SITE_CONFS$host_name ]
	then
		touch $SITE_CONFS$host_name
	else
		echo ""
		echo "File $SITE_CONFS$host_name already exists!"
		exit
fi

echo "<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@$host_name
	ServerName  $host_name
	#ServerAlias $host_name

	DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
	DocumentRoot $WWW_ROOT$path/
 	# Logfiles
	LogLevel warn
	ErrorLog  $WWW_ROOT/logs/$host_name/error.log
	CustomLog $WWW_ROOT/logs/$host_name/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

" > $SITE_CONFS$host_name

echo "Done."

echo -n "Enabling site..."

a2ensite $host_name

if [ $? -ne 0 ]
	then
		echo ""
		echo "Failed to enable site!"
	else
		echo "Ok."
fi

echo -n "Reloading Apache..."

/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

echo "Done."