htdocs is the group I use for restricting permissions to web stuff, but I didn’t know you could do that.

chown apache: $dir

the ":" automagicly picks the default group of the user.

An actual restart of apache is not needed coz you only added something to the config . So apache2ctl graceful is sufficient I think .
This also prevents users of other sites on thesame server to not get disconnected .

maybe before the restart / gracefull another check can be added like :

/usr/sbin/apache2 -S | grep OK

Just my 5 cents

Cheerio’s

I also added a custom log file and added some allow permission stuff

here it go’s :

#!/bin/bash
#Copyright (c) 2008 Brian Ortiz "Ortzinator"
#
#Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
#of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
#in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
#to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
#copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
#furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
#The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
#all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
#THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
#IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
#FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
#AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
#LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
#OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
#THE SOFTWARE.

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
echo Exactly one argument required
exit 1
fi

dir=/var/www/$1

if [ -d $dir ]
then
echo ERROR: directory $dir already exists!
exit 1
else
echo Creating directory $dir
mkdir $dir || { echo Could not create directory $dir; exit 1; }

echo Creating directory $dir/htdocs
mkdir $dir/htdocs || { echo Could not create directory $dir/htdocs; exit 1; }

echo Setting permissions
chown apache: $dir || { echo Error setting permissions for $dir; exit 1; }
chown apache: $dir/htdocs || { echo Error setting permissions for $dir/htdocs; exit 1; }

echo "

Placeholder lol

" > $dir/htdocs/index.html
chown blokkie: $dir/htdocs/index.html || { echo Error setting permissions for $dir/htdocs/index.html; exit 1; }

chmod -R 775 $dir

echo "

ServerName $1
DocumentRoot /var/www/$1/htdocs

Allow from all
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/sites-$1.log common

" > /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/$1.conf || { echo Could not add vhost to apache config!; exit 1; }

echo Restarting apache
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart || { echo Could not restart apache!; exit 1; }

echo All done!
exit 0
fi