Scripting

19.2    Creating a New Customer Account

The starting point for this example is a web server for customer accounts. When placing an order, customers receive their own database and can access the web application via their own address:

https://example.com/name

The following Bash script takes care of the initialization work required when a new account gets set up:

• Creating and initializing a new MySQL database

• Creating a new MySQL user and enabling it to access the database

• Setting up the /var/www/html/name directory

• Creating a configuration file in that directory

• Sending an email to the customer with the login data

On a server I maintain, I actually use a script that works in this way. For didactic reasons, I have greatly simplified ...