Note this is designed to use SQLite to keep the setup as simple as possible so we can get an MVP up and running as quickly as possible.

Designed to be run on Linux Debian/Ubuntu servers only.

Beware - the install script is rough and will nuke any user data when run.

SSH into the server as root. Run the following to install Docker, set up a user (www-user), download this repository from GitHub and extract the contents:

curl -fsSL -o setup.sh "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ikmolbo/Simple-PHP-Server/master/setup.sh" && chmod +x setup.sh && sudo bash ./setup.sh

Keep the password safe.

Go to the server's public IP address and check we see PHP Info. If not, check the Docker containers are running:

sudo -u www-user docker-compose ps

If all looks good, now we can use the password set earlier to SFTP or SSH into the /home/www-data folder as www-data.

Copy the website code to /home/www-user/www/example.com/staging. ìndex.php should be in the /www/example.com/staging/public subfolder.

Probably easiest to ZIP up a Laravel site, and unzip in place. May need to set permissions.

Edit ./caddy/Caddyfile to add the hostname of a new site, e.g. example.com. For a Laravel site, all we need to do is to add a new line to the Caddyfile: import laravel-app example.com.

If it looks good, point the A records of your domain (e.g. example.com) to this IP address.

Also wise to delete the default block in the Caddyfile responding to :80, and the index.php file in /home/www-user/www.

We then need to reload the Caddy server for the new configuration to take effect.

Use docker exec [container name] [command] to execute commands in the relevant container.

Here, docker exec caddy-container caddy reload --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile to reload the Caddyfile after our changes.

docker exec php-fpm-container composer install should install any Composer dependencies in the Laravel container.

Opening staging.example.com should now show the website uploaded earlier.

If all looks good, copy the code to ./www/example.com/production to access it at www.example.com

New sites can now be added by repeating steps 3-7 above.