Wicked Cool Shell Scripts

#92 Adding New Virtual Host Accounts

This script is particularly useful for web administrators who serve a number of different domains and websites from a single server. A great way to accomplish this is by using virtual hosting, a capability of Apache (and many other web servers) to assign multiple domain names to the same IP address and then split them back into individual sites within the Apache configuration file.

Just as adding a new account on a private machine requires the creation of a new home directory, creating a new virtual host account requires creating a separate home for both the web pages themselves and the resultant log files. The material added is straightforward and quite consistent, so it's a great candidate for a shell ...