A Dockerised LAMP stack

• Docker based Linux server
• Apache with self signed SSL certificate
• MariaDB
• PHP 8.1 and modules (see https://github.com/delboy1978uk/dockerhub/blob/master/php81/Dockerfile)
• MailHog (port 1025 send, port 8025 in browser)
• NodeJs 18

If you've never used Docker before, see the instructions below.code

There is a placeholder public/index.php in the code directory, from which Apache serves your site. You can delete that, and drop in (or symlink) your existing projects into the code directory.

If you are using the feature/react branch of this repository, note that the PHP code will go in code/backend and not just code, and the react app will go in code/frontend.

Simply cd into the folder you cloned into and type

bin/start

Apache logs etc will scroll by, leave this terminal open while you do your work.

You can browse to https://localhost, or https://awesome.scot (if you added to your /etc/hosts, see below, you can customise this domain)

To run commands such as composer from the terminal that are in your Docker box, you can use the run command:

bin/run composer install

To run npm or npx from the node container you can call runnode:

runnode npm ci --save-all

If you would like to enter the container and run commands from inside, you can type:

bin/terminal [service]

To restart any service, call the following:

bin/restart [service]

If you change the docker config (see belw), you can quickly rebuild using this:

bin/rebuild

Finally, there is an empty script which you can use to perform any of your initial setup tasks, typical examples could include running composer install, performing database migrations, populating fixtures, and warming up caches.

bin/init

When you are finished your work, you can close any bash terminals down until you are left with the one running the server and displaying the logs. Press CTRL-C to quit, then run the following to tidy up.

bin/stop

Apache is set up to serve awesome.scot with a self signed SSL certificate in your browser (or you can change the name in docker-compose.yml and rebuild) Edit your /etc/hosts file on your computer (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows), adding this line:

127.0.0.1 awesome.scot

You customise the setup if you need to. PHP and Apache Dockerfiles can be found in the build folder.

You will notice a file named ssmtp.conf. This LAMP stack uses Mailhog, so you can check all would-have-been-sent emails by going to awesome.scot:8025.

There is a .env file which you add to

When connecting to the dev DB from php, the MySQL host should be set to mariadb and not 127.0.0.1 or localhost.

Now you've configured your stuff, we use Docker's compose command to build it first. This is a one off again.

bin/rebuild

After which, we can just tell it bin/start.

A handy tip, if you edit your ~/.bashrc, you should add the following line:

export PATH=$PATH:bin:vendor/bin

This is also in the PHP container. It allows you to run a command without putting bin/ or vendor/bin before it.

vendor/bin/phpunit     // without $PATH export 
phpunit                // with $PATH export 
                       
bin/start              // without $PATH export
start                  // with $PATH export