Ngmodsite

This is a quick Python script written to rapidly enable and disable virtual host configurations in Nginx the same way a2ensite and a2dissite work for Apache web server.

Installation

You can simply download and copy the script in a folder which is in your $PATH, no further steps are required (although you will need to have Python 3 installed to run it):

git clone https://github.com/GioBonvi/ngmodsite.git
sudo cp ./ngmodsite/ngmodsite /usr/local/bin/ngmodsite

Usage

$ ngmodsite
usage: ngmodsite [-h] (-l | -e | -d) [hostname]

A program to enable and disable virtual hosts configurations in Nginx.

positional arguments:
  hostname       The hostname on which to operate. If not set every hostname
                 is listed.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -l, --list     List enabled and disabled configurations
  -e, --enable   Enable a configuration
  -d, --disable  Disable a configuration

Limitations

This is just a quick script written for personal use, so you might find it has some limitations: feel free to adapt it to your needs.

• It assumes that the virtual host configuration files reside in the sites-available folder inside the /etc/nginx folder and that active configurations are symlinked from there into the sites-enabled folder. The paths of these folders can, however be configured by editing the NGINX_PATH, SITES_AVAIL_PATH and SITES_EN_PATH variables.
• It assumes each configuration file in those folders only contains one virtual host and follows the following naming convention (based on the hostname):
  • inside sites-available:
    • hostname: domain.com - path: domain.com.conf
    • hostname: sub.domain.com - path: domain.com/sub.conf
    • hostname: a.b.domain.com - path: domain.com/b/a.conf
  • inside sites-enabled:
    • hostname: domain.com - path: domain.com.conf
    • hostname: sub.domain.com - path: sub.domain.com.conf
    • hostname: a.b.domain.com - path: a.b.domain.com.conf
• It does not try to detect if you have the right permissions to operate in the nginx folder: it simply fails when you try creating or deleting a symlink and asks to try again using sudo.
• It requires the argparse python library which is included with Python >= 2.7 and >= 3.2 or can be installed via pip install argparse.

License

ngmodsite is published under the MIT license.

Credits

The name of the script comes from this answer by Ghassen Telmoudi to this ServerFault question which I found while googling for a nginx equivalent to a2ensite.
I used his script for a while, then decided to change it adapting it to my personal requirements and while the script was completely rewritten (in fact I even switched from Bash to Python) the name stayed the same.