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+# https://www.xoops.org/
+FROM php:7.3-rc-apache
+
+# install the PHP extensions we need
+RUN set -ex; \
+	\
+	if command -v a2enmod; then \
+		a2enmod rewrite; \
+	fi; \
+	\
+	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
+	\
+	apt-get update; \
+	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+		libjpeg-dev \
+		libpng-dev \
+		libpq-dev \
+		libzip-dev \
+		zlib1g-dev libicu-dev \
+	; \
+	\
+	docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-png-dir=/usr --with-jpeg-dir=/usr; \
+	docker-php-ext-install -j "$(nproc)" \
+		gd \
+		opcache \
+		pdo_mysql \
+		pdo_pgsql \
+		zip \
+		intl \
+	; \
+	\
+# reset apt-mark's "manual" list so that "purge --auto-remove" will remove all build dependencies
+	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
+	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
+	ldd "$(php -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')"/*.so \
+		| awk '/=>/ { print $3 }' \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -r dpkg-query -S \
+		| cut -d: -f1 \
+		| sort -u \
+		| xargs -rt apt-mark manual; \
+	\
+	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
+	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# set recommended PHP.ini settings
+# see https://secure.php.net/manual/en/opcache.installation.php
+RUN { \
+		echo 'opcache.memory_consumption=128'; \
+		echo 'opcache.interned_strings_buffer=8'; \
+		echo 'opcache.max_accelerated_files=4000'; \
+		echo 'opcache.revalidate_freq=60'; \
+		echo 'opcache.fast_shutdown=1'; \
+		echo 'opcache.enable_cli=1'; \
+	} > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/opcache-recommended.ini
+
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+
+# https://github.com/XOOPS/XoopsCore25/releases
+# ENV XOOPS_VERSION v2.5.9
+ENV XOOPS_VERSION mysql8
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y git wget unzip libpng-dev libjpeg-progs libvpx-dev \
+    && docker-php-ext-install mysqli gd exif \
+    && apt-get clean all \
+	&& git clone --branch ${XOOPS_VERSION} --depth 1 https://github.com/geekwright/XoopsCore25.git \
+    && mv XoopsCore25/htdocs/* . \
+    && rm -rf XoopsCore25 \
+    && chown -R www-data:www-data . \
+    && chmod -R 755 /var/www/html \
+    && mv /var/www/html/xoops_lib /var/www/ \
+    && mv /var/www/html/xoops_data /var/www/ \
+    && chmod -R 755 /var/www/xoops_data
+
+EXPOSE 80 443
+CMD ["apache2-foreground"]
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+# XoopsCore25 via Docker for testing
+
+Features
+- geekwright/XoopsCore25 mysql8
+- Apache
+- PHP 7.3 RC5
+- MySQL 8.0
+
+```
+docker build -t xoopstest .
+docker-compose up
+```
+
+Apache is exposed on localhost:8080
+phpMyAdmin is available on localhost:8181
+
+When installing XOOPS using this image, in the Database setup use these values:
+- hostname "db" (not localhost)
+- user "admin"
+- password "password"
+- database "xoops"
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+version: "3"
+services:
+   db:
+      image: mysql:8.0
+      command: --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
+      restart: always
+      environment:
+          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: password
+          MYSQL_DATABASE: xoops
+          MYSQL_USER: admin
+          MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
+          MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 1
+          HOST: mysql
+      ports:
+        - 3336:3306
+   xoops:
+     image: xoopstest
+     restart: always
+     ports:
+      - "8080:80"
+     depends_on:
+       - db
+   phpmyadmin:
+       image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
+       ports:
+         - '8181:80'
+       environment:
+         MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'password'
+         MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'password'
+         MYSQL_USER: 'admin'
+         MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 1
+       depends_on:
+         - db