A little apache2 virtual host helper script (c) by diqidoq.

If you are new to this: More about Apache2 web server and virtual host setup basic knowledge can be found here.

This small set of bash functions is intended to become a little Linux bash command line helper script for adding and removing virtual hosts and web project directory rootings with a bunch of small and good ETR (easy to remember) terminal commands to run local domains on local development machines.

Move the avh.sh script file out of yor downloaded zip into your ~/bin (home/user/bin/...) and rename avh.sh to avh or use terminal the following terminal command in avh download folder root to achieve this, if bin folder already exist:

mv avh.sh ~/bin/avh

Make sure that ~/bin/avh is executable (permissions) and ~/bin is accessable (permissions) and recorgnized by your terminal. If not, sometimes it helps to relog in to Linux user.

Use the install.sh snippet to let it check if ~/bin folder already exist and let it create it if not. It will also set the right permissions and will copy avh.sh to ~/bin/avh and will make it executable. Simply run the following command from terminal in the avh download folder root:

sh install.sh

AVH supports actions based on simple -options, like avh -a or avh -l

'avh -a'         list all virtual host conf files available (use this first)
'avh -n'         list all virtual host conf files enabled
'avh -e'         edit a new or existing conf file
'avh -d'         duplicate a virtual host conf file available
'avh -i'         list all ip 127.0.0.1 entries from etc/hosts file
'avh -l'         append a local address to /etc/hosts file
'avh -x'         remove a local address from /etc/hosts file
'avh -r'         restart Apache2 server
'avh -h' or
'avh --help'     for help page (this)
'avh -v' or
'avh --version'  for showing version number and where installed

flags -e, -l and -d require second parameter (variable|path|name)

In the moment the script assumes that you are running a Debian-based Linux machine (like Ubuntu) with Apache 2 web server set up and located virtual host files under /etc/apache2/ (typically) and your command line tool is fine with bash scripts and you have vim terminal editor already installed. If not: sudo apt-get install vim.

Don't assume the script ready for guaranteed usability. This is an early attempt and will get some love from time to time.

AVH is published under the GNU General Public License v3. AVH is made for Linux Apache2 development tasks and sponsored by MAROQQO | digital media. Join us @ twitter