I need to write some scripts to make changes to Apache conf files, namely to add/update VirtualHosts. I plan on doing this in Ruby. before I write my own, are there any scripts/rubygems which allow Ruby to parse/modify Apache conf files, specifically <VirtualHost> directives?
- Not sure if StackOverflow would be a better place. Let's try ServerFault first and see what happens :-)Josh– Josh2010-03-12 19:50:49 +00:00Commented Mar 12, 2010 at 19:50
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I ended up just writing my own ruby script... Not very well done, but in case anyone needs it, here's the guts of it. It is looking for the contents of the <VirtualHost></VirtualHost> tag so that it can create a second <VirtualHost> with a ServerName which is a subdomain of our wildcard SSL cert...
begin logMsg "Updating apache config file for user #{user} (#{domain_httpd_conf})" domain_httpd_conf_io = File.open(domain_httpd_conf,File::RDONLY) ip_addr = '' main_vhost_config = [] ssl_vhost_config = [" ServerName #{auto_ssl_domain}",' Include "conf/wildcard-ssl.conf"'] indent = 1 while line = domain_httpd_conf_io.gets line_indented = ' '*indent+line.strip if line =~ /^[[:space:]]*<VirtualHost ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)(:[0-9]+)[^>]*>/ ip = $1 elsif line =~ /^[[:space:]]*<\/VirtualHost>/ break 2 elsif line =~ /^[[:space:]]*(ServerAlias|ServerName).*/ main_vhost_config.push line_indented else if line =~ /^[[:space:]]*<[^\/]/ indent += 1 elsif line =~ /^[[:space:]]*<[\/]/ indent = [1, indent-1].max line_indented = ' '*indent + line.strip end main_vhost_config.push line_indented ssl_vhost_config.push line_indented end end main_vhost_config.push " Include #{extraconf_dir}/*.conf" domain_httpd_conf_io.close domain_httpd_conf_io = File.open(domain_httpd_conf,File::WRONLY||File::TRUNC) domain_httpd_conf_io.puts "<VirtualHost #{ip}:80 #{ip}:8080>" domain_httpd_conf_io.puts main_vhost_config domain_httpd_conf_io.puts "</VirtualHost>" domain_httpd_conf_io.puts domain_httpd_conf_io.puts "<VirtualHost #{ip}:443 #{ip}:8888>" domain_httpd_conf_io.puts ssl_vhost_config domain_httpd_conf_io.puts "</VirtualHost>" rescue SystemCallError => err logErr "ERROR: Unexpected error: "+err domain_httpd_conf_io.close end Still has some bugs to work out but it mostly does what I want.
No clue, but one thing that may help you is apache's support for mass virtual hosting: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html
If you can enforce consistency across your vhosts then maybe you don't need ruby to create/manage/edit them. Convention over configuration is the rails way right?
- I would love to. Sadly what I'm trying to do is fix an issue with Virtualmin, which generates VirtualHosts which are lacking: serverfault.com/questions/121313/…Josh– Josh2010-03-12 20:31:51 +00:00Commented Mar 12, 2010 at 20:31