Max GlenisterUseful bash aliases for VPS
This post was published in 2017 and is kept here for reference. It may contain information that's outdated or inaccurate.
Some useful bash aliases that I use on my VPS’:
www=/srv/www
conf=/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
alias ra='/etc/init.d/apache2 restart'
alias ownit='chown -R www-data:www-data .'
Create an Apache conf and directory for a new domain:
function makeconf {
primary=${1}
conffile="${conf}/${primary}.conf"
site_path="/srv/www/${primary}"
mkdir -p ${site_path}
echo "<VirtualHost *:80>" >> "${conffile}"
echo " ServerName ${primary}" >> "${conffile}"
echo " ServerAlias www.${primary}" >> "${conffile}"
shift
for i; do
cat >> "${conffile}" <<EOL
ServerAlias ${i}
ServerAlias www.${i}
EOL
done
echo " DocumentRoot ${site_path}" >> "${conffile}"
echo "</VirtualHost>" >> "${conffile}"
}
Grab the latest Wordpress tar and extract it to the current directory:
function wordpressitup {
wget --no-check-certificate https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
tar xfz latest.tar.gz
cd wordpress
cp -R * ..
cd ..
rm -r wordpress
echo "Wordpress installed"
}
Some shortcuts to go to common directories:
function dwww {
cd /srv/www
}
function dcache {
cd /var/cache/mod_pagespeed/v2
}
function dconf {
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
}
See which directories and files are using up all of the space:
function fsizes {
du -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr
df -BG
}
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