SimpleApacheManager
Provides a CLI interface to manage vhosts and SSL keys for an apache2 webserver. It provides vhosts for user in their home directory or global in /var/www/vhosts when using root or the admin_user. It is released and distributed via setuptools/PyPI/pip for Python 3. It runs on Ubuntu Server 16.04 and Debian 8 systems.
Status
Alpha status. All main functions are implemented, you can add and remove vhosts and subdomains. Check function is useless at the moment. Not well tested yet, but has been build with non desctructive behavior (it should not delete anything without doing a backup, and it stops if somethings goes wrong).
Documentation as well as speaking error messages are the next steps planned. Also using letsencrypt instead of self signed certificated for each vhost and subdomain is planned.
Install
Clone this repository and build the project on your Ubuntu 16.04 server with setuptools / pip.
First of all edit the config.ini file and put in your environment details (SimpleApacheManager script path, IP etc.)
To install required python modules for SimpleApacheManager using setuptools and pip run:
sudo python3 setup.py install
The application itself is installed by calling as root user:
SimpleApacheManager # ./sam_runner.py install
You need to do this with the real root user, not as user with sudo. If you do not have access to the root account but you have sudo permissions than run:
user@server:~$ sudo -s
root@server:/home/user# su - root
root@server:~#
After installation as root the application can be executed by calling samcli as root user or with the admin_user (config.ini) and sudo:
root@server:~$ sudo samcli -h
Script executed with root permissions from user root
Using config.ini found in /home/user/workspace/github/SimpleApacheManager/config.ini
Found OSDebian8 environment
usage: samcli [-h] [-v] {user,check,install,domain} ...
SimpleApacheManager version 0.0.9.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v run with verbose output.
sub command help:
{user,check,install,domain}
available subcommands
check shows current options and configuration as well as
runs some sanity checks.
install install the environment integration in the host
system. Needs sudo rights.
user add, list
domain add, addalias, addsub, del, delalias, delsub, list
Example usage:
$ samcli check : shows current options and configuration as well as runs some sanity checks.
$ samcli install : install the environment integration in the host system. Needs sudo rights.
$ samcli user add mary : add a new vhost to the server
$ samcli user list : list all available domains, subdomains and alias
$ samcli domain add example.org : add a new vhost to the server
$ samcli domain addalias example.org www.foo.de : add an alias domain to a existing domain
$ samcli domain addsub example.org dl : add a new subdomain to an existing domain
$ samcli domain del example.org : delete an existing vhost from the server
$ samcli domain delalias example.org www.foo.de : delete an alias name from an existing domain
$ samcli domain delsub example.org dl : del a existing subdomain from an existing domain
$ samcli domain list : list all available domains, subdomains and alias