I’ve been working on some scripts to help with the deployment of sites to Apache lately. My original script was pretty simple.
I used it to automate the creation of vhost entries when I added a new site to the server. Since one of my clients actually uses WordPress
for all it’s sites, and we have been working to migrate all the sites from a multi-site installation to stand alone sites, I needed
an easy way to setup a Wordpress site on the new server. Ideally I wanted to be able to pass a script the site name and it create the
folder in var/ , install the latest copy of WordPress, install the base themes and base plugins and setup the proper vhost entry
in etc/
Ultimately I’d like to be able to incorporate this into a website so that we can install a brand new standard base install of WordPress with
the press of a button. (I don’t like how gists are embedded in jekyll so I am usinga code block + including the link to the gist)
https://gist.github.com/weatheredwatcher/14dd0d50ee3e876746ff#file-wp_install-py
import os, sys, argparse, wget, tarfile
if not os.geteuid()==0:
sys.exit("\nMust be run by root\n")
def main(argv):
##define options here
server_root = '/var/www/vhosts/'
plugin_path = '/var/resources/plugins/'
theme_path = 'var/resources/themes/'
domain = ''
options = ''
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('domain')
args = parser.parse_args(argv)
domain = args.domain
##create folder
if not os.path.exists(server_root):
print "Creating " + server_root
os.makedirs(server_root)
if not os.path.exists('tmp'):
print "Creating Temp Folder"
os.mkdirs('tmp')
##download wordpress
download = wget.download('https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz')
archive = tarfile.open(download, 'r:gz')
archive.extractall(server_root)
os.rename("/var/www/vhosts/wordpress", "/var/www/vhosts/" + domain)
##install base theme
##install base plugins
##create vhost file
filename = domain + ".conf"
target = open(filename, 'w')
vhost = """
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName %s
ServerAlias www.%s
DocumentRoot /var/www/%s
<Directory /var/www/%s>
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/%s-access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/%s-error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
</VirtualHost>""" % (domain, domain, domain, domain, domain, domain)
target.write(vhost)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv[1:])
My standard disclaimers apply here. If you do not know python well enough to follow the code, I am not liable for any issues that
might come up trying to use this code. If you know python better then me (not a huge strectch!) please leave any comments below on
your opinions on how to make this better!! Also, I am happy to help anyone out who wants to use this for something and need assistance.
My python is not by any means stellar, but I can get most things done with it!