This script allows an AngularJS app with html5mode set to true to refresh and navigate correctly with an Apache web server on a MacBook. Specifically, the script 1. creates an .htaccess files in every git repo containing an index.html file, 2. creates sym links from all webapp directories in a local git directory to the apache document root, and…

apacheDevelopmentAngularJSMacbookSetup.py

# all apache files need writeable permissions for this script to run
import sys, inspect, os, shutil
home = os.path.expanduser("~")
top = home + '/git'
apacheRoot = '/Library/WebServer/Documents/'

#first remind user to have proper permissions on /etc/apache2/
var = raw_input("\nScript requires that /etc/apache2/ is writeable. Running 'sudo chmod -R 777 /etc/apache2' will accomplish this. Enter 'y' to proceed.\n")
if var != 'y':
	sys.exit(0)

try:		
	# Create .htaccess files that support AngularJS html5mode in every file in git directory, under home, that includes an index.html file.
	# *** Note that this will create more .htaccess files than needed, particularly if the JBoss module is cloned in Git folder *** 
	for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
	    for file in files:
		    if file == 'index.html':
	    		with open(root + '/.htaccess', 'w') as newFile:
		    		
		    		#skip creating file if in jboss-development-server repo
		    		directory = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(str(newFile)))

		    		print "Creating new .htaccess file at: " + root + "/.htaccess" # script filename (usually with path)
		    		newFile.write("# Apache .htaccess\n")
		    		newFile.write("# angularjs pushstate (history) support:\n")
		    		newFile.write("# See http://www.josscrowcroft.com/2012/code/htaccess-for-html5-history-pushstate-url-routing/\n")
		    		newFile.write("<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>\n")
		    		newFile.write("   RewriteEngine On\n")
		    		newFile.write("   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f\n")
		    		newFile.write("   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d\n")
		    		newFile.write("   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index\n")
		    		newFile.write("   RewriteRule (.*) index.html [L]\n")
		    		newFile.write("</ifModule>\n")
		    		newFile.close()

        #Create symlinks from all webapp directories in git directory 
	# to /Library/WebServer/Documents - the default apache folder in Mac OSX.
	for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
	    for directory in dirs:
		    if directory == 'webapp':
		    	appNamesList = root.split("/")
		    	appName = appNamesList[4]

		    	# if sym link already exists under apache root, remove it before creating symlink
		    	if os.path.exists(apacheRoot + "/" + appName):
		    		os.unlink(apacheRoot + "/" + appName)

		    	#create symlink
	    		os.symlink(os.path.join(root, directory), apacheRoot + appName)

	    		print "Creating sym link: " + apacheRoot + appName

    #Write apache reverse proxy configuration file
	print "Adding Apache proxy config file at /etc/apache2/other/infoplus-api-proxy.conf."
	proxyFile = open('/etc/apache2/other/infoplus-api-proxy.conf', 'w')
	proxyFile.write("#########################################\n")
	proxyFile.write("## turn on api urls                    ##\n")
	proxyFile.write("#########################################\n")
	proxyFile.write("\n")
	proxyFile.write("SSLProxyEngine On\n")
	proxyFile.write("RequestHeader set Front-End-Https 'On'\n")
	proxyFile.write("RewriteEngine On\n")
	proxyFile.write("\n")
	proxyFile.write("RewriteRule ^/(.*)/api/ " + qaProxy + "/%{REQUEST_URI} [P]\n")
	proxyFile.write("ProxyPassReverse /login/api/ " + qaProxy + "/login/api/\n")
	proxyFile.write("\n")
	proxyFile.write("CacheDisable *\n")
	proxyFile.write("\n")
	proxyFile.close()

	#Include apache reverse proxy configuration file in httpd.conf
	print "Adding include proxy to httpd.conf."
	httpdFile = open('/etc/apache2/httpd.conf', 'a')
	httpdFile.write("\n")
	httpdFile.write("Include /etc/apache2/other/infoplus-api-proxy.conf\n")
	httpdFile.close()

except IOError as (errno,strerror):
    print "I/O error({0}): {1}".format(errno, strerror)