Helper script to quickly setup Apache VirtualHosts on my laptop

httpd-conf.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# helper script to quickly setup Apache VirtualHosts on my laptop

import os
import sys

HTTPD_CONF_DIR = '/var/www/conf.d'
HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT = '/var/www/html'

def httpd_conf(domain, src, *args, **kw):
    root = os.path.join(HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT, domain)
    conf = open(os.path.join(HTTPD_CONF_DIR, '%s.conf' % domain), 'w+')

    conf.write('<VirtualHost *:80>\n')
    conf.write('\tServerName %s\n' % domain)
    conf.write('\tDocumentRoot %s\n' % root)
    conf.write('\n')
    conf.write('\t<Directory %s>\n' % root)
    conf.write('\t\tOptions FollowSymLinks\n')
    conf.write('\t\tAllowOverride All\n')
    conf.write('\t</Directory>\n')
    conf.write('</VirtualHost>\n')
    conf.close()

    try:
        os.symlink(src, root)
    except OSError:
        os.unlink(root)
        os.symlink(src, root)



if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        httpd_conf(*sys.argv[1:])
    except TypeError:
        print '\nUsage: python httpd-conf.py <domain> <httpd-readable-path-to-project-source>\n'