I just threw together a quick Python script which generates a virtual host file, enables it, creates the web directory and restarts the webserver.

It’s basic – but I found it useful.  Maybe someone else will too.

#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys, getopt

def main(argv):

  try:
    opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv, "hd:a:", ["help", "domain="])
  except getopt.GetoptError:
    usage()
    sys.exit(2)

  if len(opts) < 1:
    usage()
    sys.exit(2)

  for o, a in opts:
    if o in ("-h", "--help"):
      usage()
      sys.exit()
    if o in ("-d", "--domain"):
      domain = a
    else:
      assert False, "unhandled option"

  directory = domain.split('.')[0]

  if not os.path.isdir("/var/www/%s" % directory):
    os.mkdir("/var/www/%s" % directory)

  if not os.path.isdir("/var/www/%s/htdocs" % directory):
    os.mkdir("/var/www/%s/htdocs" % directory)

  vhost_template = """
  
    ServerName www.__DOMAIN__
    ServerAlias __DOMAIN__
    DocumentRoot /var/www/__DIR__/htdocs
    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/__DOMAIN__-access.log combined
    ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/__DOMAIN__-error.log

    ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
    ErrorDocument 401 /401.html
    ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^__DOMAIN__
    RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.__DOMAIN__$1 [R=301,L]

    
      Options +Indexes FollowSymlinks IncludesNoExec +Includes -MultiViews
      AllowOverride All
      Order Allow,Deny
      Allow from all
    
  
  """

  vhost = vhost_template.replace('__DIR__', directory).replace('__DOMAIN__', domain)
  open('/etc/apache2/sites-available/%s.conf' % directory, 'w').write(vhost)
  os.system('a2ensite %s.conf' % directory)
  os.system('/etc/init.d/apache2 restart')

def usage():
  print 'usage: newv.py [-d domain.com]'

if __name__=="__main__":
  main(sys.argv[1:])

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