Create a new virtual host in less than 5 seconds!

Got some cool PHP project that you want to test on your local machine? Want to create a virtual host to have custom URL for that project to visit on your local machine?

Just copy and paste the project folder in /var/www/html/ folder and you’re just a couple of seconds away from the magic!

Usage: Just run this bash script from anywhere on your Ubuntu machine

$ bash addnewvirtualhost.sh project-folder-name project-url

Here, project-folder-name is the name of the project folder in /var/www/html/ corresponding to which you want to create a virtual host and project-url is the URL that you want to use to access that project

That’s it! You’re done!

Instructions:

Installing the AddNewVirtualHost script

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sahildua2305/AddNewVirtualHost/master/addnewvirtualhost.sh

Once you have the script, you can run it everytime you want to create a new virtual host as shown below:

$ bash addnewvirtualhost.sh project-folder-name project-url

Notes:

1. Script works for Ubuntu machine only.
2. Make sure port 80 is open.

Behind the scene

The script will create a new virtual host with the given project-url and link it with the project-folder-name given as arguments while running the script.

The script does the following things:

• Creates configuration file for the new virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-available folder
• Enables the newly added configuration file for the new virtual host
• Reloads apache2 service
• Adds the new virtual host URL to /etc/hosts
• Restarts apache2 service

Script is available at https://github.com/sahildua2305/AddNewVirtualHost