editing script to create a default web page

**braden87** · 11-14-2010

Hello everyone

The title of this post may sound like it's real easy and simple enough for a noob to do but my situation isn't noobish.

I have this script that i found on the internet that i wish to edit and create a new user and set a pass word AND create a default web page in the /var/www/html directory.

This is the script with my edits included. The commented out field are my own editing.....

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Script to add a user to Linux system
if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then
	read -p "Enter username : " username
	read -s -p "Enter password : " password
	egrep "^$username" /etc/passwd >/dev/null
	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
		echo "$username exists!"
		exit 1
	else
		pass=$(perl -e 'print crypt($ARGV[0], "password")' $password)
		useradd -m -p $pass $username
		[ $? -eq 0 ] && echo "User has been added to system!" || echo "Failed to add a user!"
#touch index.php /var/www/html
	fi
else
	echo "Only root may add a user to the system"
	exit 2
fi

I know this may seem like a weird way of doing it but please forgive me, i haven't worked on linux in years and am trying to get back in the swing of it. My main points are
- Make a file in the /var/www/html folder that is a .php or .html extension
- How could i create a default html / php web page from whithin the script? if possible?

Thanks in advanced,
Braden

**cfajohnson** · 12-11-2010

You should make a directory for the user, then create the HTML file:

Code:

mkdir /var/www/html/$username || exit 1
{
 printf "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">\n"
 printf "<head>\n <title></title>\n </head>\n"
 printf " <body>\n  <h1></h1>\n"
} > /var/www/html/$username/index.html

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