simpledockerlamp (LAMP with Laravel) for Windows 10 or 11

This is a simple docker-compose file to create a LAMP stack with Laravel Support in Windows. It uses the official images for Apache, MySQL and PHP. I need a quick way to setup a LAMP and run laravel. Configuration and files all set in C:/docker folder

Requirements:

• Windows 10 or 11
• Git
• Docker
• C:\Docker folder
• Html in C:\Docker\html

Ports:

• 80: Apache
• 5000: phpmyadmin
• 8000: laravel

Installed docker images:

• 8.1.27-apache
• mysql:5.7.41

How to use

1. Install Docker, Start Docker

2. Clone this repository from https://github.com/sebasong23/simpledockerlamp.git in C:

git clone https://github.com/sebasong23/simpledockerlamp.git c:/docker

#preferable to use c:/docker folder 3. CD to folder and Run

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up

OR Run

run.bat

Will download lamp docker required files

4. Test application working by

   • Open browser and type http://localhost
   • You should see working html
   • Open browser and type http://localhost:5000
   • You should see phpmyadmin page

5. To access the container, run the following command:

 docker exec -it docker-web-server8-1 bash 

or

 it.bat

6. Test the php version by running the following command:

   php -v

7. Use linux command to install composer

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'edb40769019ccf227279e3bdd1f5b2e9950eb000c3233ee85148944e555d97be3ea4f40c3c2fe73b22f875385f6a5155') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

8. Test the composer version by running the following command:

   composer --version

9. Install laravel in you html public folder by running the following command:

cd /var/www/html
composer create-project laravel/laravel mylaravel

10. Test the laravel version by running the following command:

    php artisan --version

11. Test the laravel application by running the following command:

    php artisan serve --host=0.0.0.0
    

    (without 0.0.0.0 it will not work)

12. Open browser and type http://localhost:8000 You should see laravel welcome page

13. Configure the .env file in the mylaravel folder to connect to the database. Use the following settings: These setting are our docker-compose.yml file, DB_HOSt must point to our container mysqlHost name

  DB_HOST=mysqlHost
  DB_DATABASE=thisdb
  DB_USERNAME=user
  DB_PASSWORD=secret

14. Run the following command to create the database:

    php artisan migrate

15. All good, you can now start developing your laravel application.

16. To stop the containers, run Ctrl C on the terminal where you ran the docker-compose up command or run.bat command.

Tested work well in Windows 11. Official git repo is in https://github.com/sebasong23/simpledockerlamp

Configuration

docker-compose yml contain port configuration For example to change port 80 to 81, or 8000 to 8001 ports: - "81:80" - "8001:8000"

If your change the Dockerfile, you need to rebuild the image by running the following command:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up --build

or

runbuild.bat

Happy Laravelling!