nxhosts

nxhosts is a small bash utility to help manage Nginx server. The motivation to write this came from often needed process of:

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/DOMAIN.conf
nginx -t # to check we haven't broke something

When adding new server block, it's even worse:

cd /etc/nginx
vi sites-available/NEW-DOMAIN.conf
cd sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/NEW-DOMAIN.conf
cd ..
nginx -t

It's a lot of typing, I wanted something shorter. And with bash completition.

There is probably something similar outthere, but I just wanted to hack on something instead of working. Hey, it's Friday...

How to use it?

List files in sites-available directory:

nxhosts list

Test nginx configuration:

nxhosts test

Enable or disable specific server(s):

nxhosts enable server [server ...]

or

nxhosts disable server [server ...]

View one or more nginx server files (files in sites-available directory):

nxhosts view server [server ...]

Edit one or more nginx server files (files in sites-available directory):

nxhosts edit server [server ...]

How to install it?

Just copy nxhosts script to anywhere in PATH. There is bash completion script, source it from .profile. It could be put into /etc/bash_completion.d/ but this is not meant to be used by anyone other than root user, so that does not really makes sense.

Licence

nxhosts is MIT licensed.