LAMP Stack in Docker

multiple PHP (5.6/7.x/8.x) + Apache2 + MariaDB/Mysql + ... in Docker

This docker setup has been tested with Magento 2, WordPress and Symfony 2 -> Symfony 4

How to set up:

1. Install docker and docker compose properly
2. Clone project and cd into the that
3. Create configurations files (for the first time):

• .env: define docker env variable
• dclamp.env: define PHP versions and services
• docker-compose.yml: Docker compose file

./dclamp

• Next time, you have to run ./dclamp config and ./dclamp generate separately.

4. Generate wildcard self-signed certificates for *.*.localhost (optional)

openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 \
-keyout ./httpd/certs/x.x.localhost.key \
-out ./httpd/certs/x.x.localhost.crt \
-subj "/C=XX/ST=State/L=City/O=Company/OU=CompanySectionName/CN=*.*.localhost"

5. Create and run container:

docker compose up -d

PHP web application:

• Write your code at public_html directory
• Browse to URL: localhost/info.php to check if it's running properly
• Your MariaDB database credentials: root:1@localhost:3306 or root:1@mariadb:3306

Default VirtualHost

• Default PHP version(s): latest PHP 8.x
• Assume your index.php is located at ./public_html/project-dir/public-dir/index.php, please browse to:
  • http://public-dir.project-dir73.localhost to run your application with PHP 7.3,
  • http://public-dir.project-dir74.localhost (PHP 7.4)
• You don't have to add entry to /etc/hosts/ because by default, all .localhost sites will be redirected to 127.0.0.1:
  • If it's not the case, you can use dnsmasq instead of /etc/hosts, example:

# Redirect all localhost sites to 127.0.0.1
address=/localhost/127.0.0.1

Custom VirtualHost

• Add your VirtualHost config files to ./httpd/conf/vhosts/
• Restart Apache container: docker restart httpd

Use PHP CLI:

• Run command

docker compose exec php73 /bin/bash

or

docker compose exec php{xx} /bin/bash

• Run you PHP application with command php ...
• To debug PHP CLI application: replace php by xdebug
  • Example: php bin/console to xdebug bin/console

Enable/Disable PHP xdebug:

• After docker compose exec... into container, run

toggle-php-mod xdebug

or shortcut

toggle-php-mod xd

Enable/Disable PHP Opcache:

• After docker compose exec... into container, run

toggle-php-mod opcache

or shortcut

toggle-php-mod op