This works for Debian and Ubuntu apache create/delete virtual host:
#!/bin/bash
### Set Language
TEXTDOMAIN=virtualhost
### Set default parameters
action=$1
domain=$2
rootdir=$3
owner=$(who am i | awk '{print $1}')
email='webmaster@localhost'
sitesEnable='/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/'
sitesAvailable='/etc/apache2/sites-available/'
userDir='/var/www/'
sitesAvailabledomain=$sitesAvailable$domain.conf
### don't modify from here unless you know what you are doing ####
if [ "$(whoami)" != 'root' ]; then
echo $"You have no permission to run $0 as non-root user. Use sudo"
exit 1;
fi
if [ "$action" != 'create' ] && [ "$action" != 'delete' ]
then
echo $"You need to prompt for action (create or delete) -- Lower-case only"
exit 1;
fi
while [ "$domain" == "" ]
do
echo -e $"Please provide domain. e.g.dev,staging"
read domain
done
if [ "$rootdir" == "" ]; then
rootdir=${domain//./}
fi
if [ "$action" == 'create' ]
then
### check if domain already exists
if [ -e $sitesAvailabledomain ]; then
echo -e $"This domain already exists.\nPlease Try Another one"
exit;
fi
### check if directory exists or not
if ! [ -d $userDir$rootdir ]; then
### create the directory
mkdir $userDir$rootdir
### give permission to root dir
chmod 755 $userDir$rootdir
### write test file in the new domain dir
if ! echo "" > $userDir$rootdir/phpinfo.php
then
echo $"ERROR: Not able to write in file $userDir/$rootdir/phpinfo.php. Please check permissions"
exit;
else
echo $"Added content to $userDir$rootdir/phpinfo.php"
fi
fi
### create virtual host rules file
if ! echo "
ServerAdmin $email
ServerName $domain
ServerAlias $domain
DocumentRoot $userDir$rootdir
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/$domain-error.log
LogLevel error
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/$domain-access.log combined
then
echo -e $"There is an ERROR creating $domain file"
exit;
else
echo -e $"\nNew Virtual Host Created\n"
fi
### Add domain in /etc/hosts
if ! echo "127.0.0.1 $domain" >> /etc/hosts
then
echo $"ERROR: Not able to write in /etc/hosts"
exit;
else
echo -e $"Host added to /etc/hosts file \n"
fi
if [ "$owner" == "" ]; then
chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) $userDir$rootdir
else
chown -R $owner:$owner $userDir$rootdir
fi
### enable website
a2ensite $domain
### restart Apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
### show the finished message
echo -e $"Complete! \nYou now have a new Virtual Host \nYour new host is: http://$domain \nAnd its located at $userDir$rootdir"
exit;
else
### check whether domain already exists
if ! [ -e $sitesAvailabledomain ]; then
echo -e $"This domain does not exist.\nPlease try another one"
exit;
else
### Delete domain in /etc/hosts
newhost=${domain//./\\.}
sed -i "/$newhost/d" /etc/hosts
### disable website
a2dissite $domain
### restart Apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
### Delete virtual host rules files
rm $sitesAvailabledomain
fi
### check if directory exists or not
if [ -d $userDir$rootdir ]; then
echo -e $"Delete host root directory ? (y/n)"
read deldir
if [ "$deldir" == 'y' -o "$deldir" == 'Y' ]; then
### Delete the directory
rm -rf $userDir$rootdir
echo -e $"Directory deleted"
else
echo -e $"Host directory conserved"
fi
else
echo -e $"Host directory not found. Ignored"
fi
### show the finished message
echo -e $"Complete!\nYou just removed Virtual Host $domain"
exit 0;
fi