christinloehner/php-fpm repository overview

⁠PHP-FPM – Production-Ready Image with Full Extension Stack

A comprehensive PHP-FPM image based on the official php:X.Y-fpm (Debian Bookworm), pre-loaded with a wide range of PHP extensions, system tools, Node.js, and Composer — ready for production and development use.

⁠Quick Start

docker pull christinloehner/php-fpm:8.4-fpm
docker pull christinloehner/php-fpm:8.5-fpm
docker pull christinloehner/php-fpm:latest

This php images does contain openssh-server and composer. The openssh-server is for doing automated deployments directly into the containers. You can fire this up by using the following docker-compose.yml

services:

  php:
    image: christinloehner/php-fpm:latest
    environment:
      TZ: "${TZ}"
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./web:/config
      - ./home:/home/web
      - ./tmp:/var/www/tmp
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

  ssh:
    image: christinloehner/php-fpm:latest
    command: "/usr/sbin/sshd -D"
    environment:
      TZ: "${TZ}"
    depends_on:
      - php
    ports:
      - 22001:22/tcp
    volumes:
      - ./sshd:/etc/ssh
      - ./home:/home/web
      - ./web:/config:z
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    restart: unless-stopped

⁠Available Tags

⁠PHP Extensions

⁠Compiled Extensions

⁠PECL Extensions

⁠OPcache Configuration (pre-set)

opcache.memory_consumption=256
opcache.interned_strings_buffer=8
opcache.max_accelerated_files=20000
opcache.revalidate_freq=5
opcache.fast_shutdown=1
opcache.enable_cli=1

⁠Included System Tools

Development & Utilities

• git, curl, wget, vim, nano, mc, screen, sudo, jq
• rsync, zstd, unzip, gnupg, ca-certificates
• build-essential, bison, flex

Media Processing

• ffmpeg, ffmpegthumbnailer — Video processing and thumbnail generation
• imagemagick, graphicsmagick — Image conversion and manipulation
• jpegoptim, optipng, pngcrush, webp — Image optimization

PDF & Documents

• ghostscript — PostScript/PDF interpreter
• pdftk-java — PDF toolkit

Server & Infrastructure

• openssh-server — SSH server (host keys are removed and regenerated at container start)
• mariadb-client — MySQL/MariaDB CLI
• msmtp + msmtp-mta — Lightweight mail transport agent
• cron — Cron daemon
• snmp — SNMP tools
• logrotate — Log rotation
• php-fpm-healthcheck — FPM health check endpoint

⁠Node.js

Node.js is installed via NVM⁠ and available system-wide:

node, nodejs, npm, npx

Node.js LTS is set as default and available to all users via PATH.

⁠Composer

Composer (latest stable) is installed at /usr/local/bin/composer.

⁠Users & Permissions

A dedicated system user is pre-created for running web applications:

The /config directory (working directory) is owned by web:web and group-writable.

⁠Locales

Pre-generated locales:

• de_DE.UTF-8
• en_US.UTF-8

⁠Entrypoint & Default Command

ENTRYPOINT ["php-entrypoint"]
CMD ["php-fpm"]
WORKDIR /config

⁠Version Notes