Setup project running PHP, Laravel with Docker

After learning about Docker convenience and some of the most commonly used concepts of Docker, let’s do an example of setting up a project to run Laravel on Docker, with services like php, mysql, server nginx.

What we will do:

– Install nginx, mysql, php -> Test run in browser with php web server nginx

– Install laravel on a directory with Docker

1. Create file and folder on your soure path:

– Folder: mysql, nginx, nginx_log, php-fpm

– File: Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml

Source folder

2. Dockerfile

– Get the nginx, php-fpm installer from docker-hub (from wyveo)

– Create a Dockerfile file with the following content:

FROM wyveo/nginx-php-fpm:php73
LABEL maintainer=”your favorite title”

3. docker-compose.yml

– Create docker-compose with following content:

mydocker_server:                         // name of server
build: .                              // all file in current folder
dockerfile: Dockerfile                 // call Dockerfile (dockerfile same folder docker-compose file)
container_name: mydocker_frame         // name the container for the server
working_dir: /var/www/html            // working directory that holds data on the server
ports:
– “80:80”                            // default port
volumes:                                // maps all files and folders in src to the path address on the server
– ./src:/var/www/html
– ./nginx/nginx_log:/var/log/nginx
– ./php-fpm/php-fpm.log:/var/log/php-fpm.log
– ./nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/app.conf

links:                                // link to mysql, so that when we build it, we will use the same images
– mysql

mysql:
image: mysql:5.6                         // version mysql
container_name: mydocker_mysql            // Name the container for mysql
ports:
– “3308:3306”                        // the default port is 3306, while 3308 is up to you
volumes:                                // maps all files and folders in mysql to the path address on the server
– ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql

environment:                            // config database information
MYSQL_DATABASE: your_db
MYSQL_USER: root
MYSQL_PASSWORD: root
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
SERVICE_TAGS: dev
SERVICE_NAME: mysql

4. nginx/default.conf

– Create file default.conf in nginx folder. Config server nginx:

server {
listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
# listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

root /var/www/html/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name mydocker.local www.mydocker.local;

# Disable sendfile as per https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/synced-folders/virtualbox.html
sendfile off;

# Security – Hide nginx version number in error pages and Server header
server_tokens off;

# Add stdout logging
error_log /dev/stdout info;
access_log /dev/stdout;

# reduce the data that needs to be sent over network
gzip on;
gzip_min_length 10240;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml application/json text/javascript application/x-javascript application/xml;
gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6]\.”;

location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to index.php
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string $uri/index.html;
}

# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root   /var/www/html/public;
}

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on socket
#
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}

location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|ico|xml)$ {
expires           5d;
}

# deny access to . files, for security
#
location ~ /\. {
log_not_found off;
deny all;
}
}

server_name mydocker.local www.mydocker.local;

-> your need setup it in /etc/hosts:

– MacOS and Linux: sudo nano /etc/hosts

– Windows: Open with Notepad the following file: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts. You can right-click and select Run as administrator.

Config host file

5. Test on browser

After completing the above step, run the following command to build and run the container

docker-compose build && docker-compose up -d

You create the file index.php in src: php_info();

run url: mydocker.local on browser

6. Install the laravel app using docker

mkdir src/public
cd src/public

composer create-project laravel/laravel .

Source file after install Laravel

Result on browser

Done!

Refer to link: https://gitlab.com/donv/simple-laravel-docker