alexisno/nginx-php-dev repository overview

⁠Nginx / PHP docker image for development environment

A Docker Nginx / PHP-FPM image with some useful packages for development environments. Do not use it for production.

⁠Configuration

Nginx, php5, Xdebug, composer, phpunit, phing

Nginx serve a phpinfo() page. To test it and obtain information about the configuration:

docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 alexisno/nginx-php-dev

• docker run ... alexisno/nginx-php-dev Run Nginx and PHP-FPM in a new container
• -d Detached mode: run container in the background
• -p 80:80 -p 443:443 Publish the container's ports 80 and 443 on the host so you can connect to the server

Open your brower at http://localhost/⁠ and https://localhost/⁠

Composer, phpunit and phing are available globally.

PHP is configured to send mail via a alexisno/mailcatcher-dev⁠ container. Launch a alexisno/mailcatcher-dev⁠ container and use --link mailcatcher:my-mailcatcher-container.

Xdebug is configurated to accept any connection. Just send the appropriate request parameters.

⁠Common usage

This image should be used as a basic image for any project.

• Create an apache virtualhost for the development environment.
• Create a Dockerfile with your project dependencies and add the virtualhost to it's configuration.
• Create you own image with docker build or docker-compose build.

Run your new image with a command similar to this:

docker run -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /path/to/your/project/sources:/var/www/project-name -v /path/to/project/data/apache/logs:/var/log/apache2 your-image-tag

⁠Self signed certificate

The image comes with a gencert command to generate self signed certificates.

Usage in child Dockerfile:

RUN gencert <domain>

VirtualHost configuration:

server { listen 80; listen 443 ssl;

  ssl_certificate     /etc/ssl/certs/<domain>.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/<domain>.key;

  server_name <domain>;

  # Complete with your configuration
  # ...
}

Replace <domain> with the hostname you use for the development environment.