lysender/php-apache repository overview

⁠Generic PHP Apache Docker container

Generic PHP Apache docker container built on CentOs 7.

Note: This repo just serves as a base image for building PHP/Apache based containers. You can extend this by using the existing image (the result of this Docker file repo) at https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/lysender/php-apache/⁠ by Docker Hub.

⁠Requirements

You must have at least Docker 1.6.2 where this Dockerfile is tested. It is also nice to have a fast internet connection or best if you do this on a VPS or some cloud hosting account.

⁠Installation

For testing purposes, like a hello workd application (in our case, a phpinfo() output), we can build the image this way.

Note: I prefer to create images and containers as a regular user. You may choose to run it as root.

# Clone this repo
git clone [email protected]:lysender/docker-php-apache.git
cd docker-php-apache

# Build image, you can use any tag name
docker build --rm -t lysender/php-apache .

# Create and run a container on poart 8080
docker run --name sample-php -d -p 8080:80 lysender/php-apache

The first part (building the image) will take some time to complete. Fast connection helps.

After building, we create a container based on the newly created image, configure it to run as a daemon -d, map the exposed port to 8080 where it maps to the containers port 80.

You can then test this by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8080⁠ or the IP address of your VPS like http://your-vps-ip:8080⁠.

The output is a phpinfo() page based on our sample index.php file.

⁠Troubleshooting

Site does not load? Try checking if the container is still running.

docker ps

It should show the currently running containers. It sample-php container is not listed, or has exited for some reasons, then there are issues when the image or container.

TODO: Add more troubleshooting information.