cballenar / vhost

Simple manager for creating and removing virtual hosts in nginx powered servers.

Virtual Host Manager for Nginx

Simple manager for creating and removing virtual hosts in nginx powered servers.

How to

Download repository

Download or upload the repository to your server.

e.g. git clone https://github.com/jsifalda/nginx-server-manager-bash.git

Make server manager global!

Move script to your preferred location for scripts.

e.g.: /usr/local/bin/vhost

Don't forget to update your permissions.

e.g.: chmod +x /usr/local/bin/vhost

Set globals

Adjust the global variables to fit your server configuration. The defaults are:

htdocs="/srv/www/vhosts/"
nginxAvailable="/etc/nginx/sites-available/"
nginxEnabled="/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/"
hostsFile="/etc/hosts"

Usage

At the moment sudo is required when running the script.

Adding a new host

vhost -a my-virtual-host.com

Creating new host from cloned repository

vhost -c my-virtual-host.com https://github.com/user/repo.git

Removing host

vhost -r my-virtual-host.com

Credits

This script is based on jsifalda's nginx-server-manager-bash and its forks.

Todo

• Add option to enabled and disable virtual hosts without removing them, i.e.: removing soft link in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
• Use sudo only where required. If the www folder is setup with the permissions user:www-data, then root is not required for the creation of these files and it'd be better to have their ownership NOT be root:www-data
• Improving nginx configuration file
• Add some color to the output messages
• What's better echo or printf?
• Clean up