LAMP Vhost Manager

Easily manage LAMP name based virtual hosts for your web development projects.

For more details you can visit my article at inchoo.net.

Features

• Two modes of operation, add and remove project
• Optionally creates MySQL user and database
• Detects suphp module to create files with proper user and group ownership depending on configurable base document root

Usage

This script requires root access.

./lamp-vhost-manager.sh OPTIONS

OPTIONS:

    -h    Show this message
    -m    Mode (required, "add" or "remove")
    -n    Project name (required, used as directory name and as domain name if -t is omitted)
    -t    TLD (optional, provide only if directory name differs from domain name)
    -d    Document root (optional, "/var/www" by default)
    -u    MySQL administrative user name (optional, ommit to avoid managing database)
    -p    MySQL administrative user password (optional, ommit to avoid managing database)
    -U    Desired MySQL database user name (optional, to be used with -u and -p, project name by default)
    -P    Desired MySQL database password (optional, to be used with -u and -p, project name by default)
    -N    Desired MySQL database name (optional, to be used with -u and -p, project name by default)
    -g    Initialize empty git repository inside project directory
    -c    Create CGI directory in document root

Example

Add project "example.loc":

./lamp-vhost-manager.sh -m add -n example.loc -u mysqladminusername -p mysqladminuserpassword

Output:

Creating "/var/www/example.loc"...
"/var/www/example.loc" already owned by user "root", so not changing ownership...
"/var/www/example.loc" already owned by user "root" from group "root", so not changing group ownership...
Adding "127.0.0.1 example.loc" to "/etc/hosts"...
Creating "/etc/apache2/sites-available/example.loc"...
Creating "/var/log/apache2/example.loc"...
Creating MySQL user and database...
Running "a2ensite example.loc"...
Running "service apache2 restart"...
PROJECT PATH: /var/www/example.loc
PROJECT URL: http://example.loc
MYSQL USER: example.loc
MYSQL PASSWORD: example.loc
MYSQL DATABASE: example.loc

Remove project "example.loc":

./lamp-vhost-manager.sh -m remove -n example.loc -u mysqladminusername -p mysqladminuserpassword

Output:

Do you want to remove "/var/www/example.loc"? (y/N)?Y
Removing "/var/www/example.loc"...
Removing "/var/log/apache2/example.loc"...
Removing "127.0.0.1 example.loc" from "/etc/hosts"...
Removing "/etc/apache2/sites-available/example.loc"...
Do you want to remove MySQL "example.loc" database and "example.loc" user? (y/N)?Y
Removing MySQL user and database...
Running "a2dissite example.loc"...
Running "service apache2 restart"...