Bash: Create virtual hosts with `sudo vhost site-name` (Mac OSX Leopard). By Jason Tan.

vhost.sh

#!/bin/sh

ME=your-username
DIR=/Users/$ME/Sites/$1
if [ ! -d $DIR ]
    then
    sudo -u $ME mkdir $DIR
    sudo -u $ME touch $DIR/index.php
    echo "<h1>$1</h1>" >> $DIR/index.php
fi

VHOST=/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
echo "\n<VirtualHost *:80>" >> $VHOST
echo "    ServerAdmin you@your-mac.local" >> $VHOST
echo "    DocumentRoot \"$DIR\"" >> $VHOST
echo "    ServerName $1.dev" >> $VHOST
echo "</VirtualHost>\n" >> $VHOST
 
echo "127.0.0.1    $1.dev" >> /etc/hosts

apachectl graceful

mate $DIR
open http://$1.dev/