Simple script for setting up a new local site on a mac's native apache.

newlocalsite.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo "enter directory path, leave blank for current"

read DOCROOT

if [ -z "$DOCROOT" ];
    then
        DOCROOT="$PWD"
fi

echo "enter domain name, defaults to current directory and will end in .dev"

read DOMAIN

if [ -z "$DOMAIN" ];
    then
        DOMAIN="${PWD##*/}"
fi

echo "127.0.0.1 $DOMAIN.dev" >> /etc/hosts

FILE="/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf"

echo "<VirtualHost *:80>" >> $FILE
echo "    ServerName $DOMAIN.dev" >> $FILE
echo "    ServerAlias $DOMAIN.*.xip.io" >> $FILE
echo "    DocumentRoot $DOCROOT" >> $FILE
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> $FILE

apachectl restart

echo "All done"