1. Nginx is configured to automatically resolve all domains ending with .dev. It is very convenient: you can simply create the directory test-app (domain name without .dev) in the web document root and it will be available by the link http://test-app.dev/ (NOTICE: it requires some preliminary configuration, see #additional software for detailed information).

2. MySQL 5.7

   • user: root
   • (No password)

3. Pre-installed composer (with assets plugin), git, phpmyadmin (by default, automatic login as root without password).

4. It stores source codes and mysql data on the host machine, therefore, you don't need to deploy your app each time you start the container.

5. Php process run by user with UID 1000 (by default, the same UID as your host machine user), thus it can access all files. At the same time, you have all permissions for generated files.

For comfortable work, I suggest you to use dnsmasq for automatic resolving of such domains as http://*.dev/. You can install it in Ubuntu this way (run as root):

apt-get install dnsmasq
echo "address=/.dev/127.0.0.1" >> /etc/dnsmasq.conf

By default container binds 80 port on local 127.0.0.1:80. If you are using another binding, change the ip address in the previous code to the one you use.

Another variant is to update /etc/hosts manually, each time adding something like this:

127.0.0.1   my-app.dev

First of all, you need install Docker on your machine. All command need run as root or you need add your user to docker group.

docker run -d --name=web-server -v ~/work/www:/web -v ~/work/mysql:/var/lib/mysql -p 127.0.0.1:80:80 tolik505/docker-lemp

--name=web-server set container name, for simple access to it in the future: you can start, restart and stop the created container using its name: docker start web-server

-p 127.0.0.1:80:80 bind the port 80 of the container to the port 80 on the host machine (on 127.0.0.1 localhost)

-v ~/work/mysql:/var/lib/mysql bind mount a volume of mysql data directory from host machine (~/work/mysql) to container (/var/lib/mysql)

-v /work/www:/web bind mount a volume of source codes from host machine (/var/www) to container (/web)

-d detached mode: run the container in the background and print the new container ID

You can access container terminal like this:

docker exec -ti web-server su docker

It logs you in the container as special user docker, witch can work with source code and console commands.

But if you need root privileges, run:

docker exec -ti web-server bash

It logs you in as root