Now that we have a Development Webserver, we may have a local DNS server running to use a local TLD on the localhost and we have SSL added to our setup, we have discarded VirtualHostX , there is one thing that needs manual labor; and we hate that! (don’t we?). Maintaining the Apache2 Virtual-Host Configuration file and – in case of a DNS-less setup – the hosts file. Now, we do this automated! (Read on!)
It’s quite a long script, not very, and certainly not complicated, but – if you are not into shell scripting – it might be overwhelming. Just download it and chmod 755 it, then change a few lines;
DPATH=/Development
Change this to the path to your development base directory.
TLDS="local"
Add to or change this line to specify your own tld’s (mine says: TLDS=”dev dv”)
MYEMAIL=your@email.com
Not very hard to understand the meaning of this one, ey?
PHDIR=public_html
My setup uses /Development/domain.dev/public_html/the_website_here as structure, but yours might not. Change this to whatever you call your public dir. Direct Admin uses public_html, Plesk uses httpdocs. Whatever makes your boat float, I guess.
NETMODE=IPv6
If you use VirtualHostX, you would not be looking at this script. But you might be using a local DNS server. If you do, set this to ‘NONE’. If you don’t, set this to either IPv4, IPv6 or BOTH. If you don’t know what to do, set it to IPv4.
Save the file, and you’re done. (Don’t forget the chmod 755!)
Run it like this;
./rba.sh
Enjoy!, and don’t hesitate to contact me if you run into problems, or perhaps even improve on my work :)
Revisions:
November 2016: moved file to github as gist, see https://gist.github.com/rmpel/dda9f0286e1de426dfde62921570d081
August 2014: Updated rba.sh script for Apache 2.4 used in OSX 10.10 Yosemite