zuraj/php-84-apache repository overview

Still working on this, so information might be incomplete...

⁠About

This image is intended to host a Laravel (12.x) application on Apache httpd and PHP 8.4 in a container.

Especially to run in the Container Manager of a Synology Diskstation. As for today you can only install PHP 8.2 from the Package Center on a Synology, but Laravel Installer⁠ requires at least PHP 8.3 (I think...)

It basically contains the php:8.4-apache⁠ official image. I have just changed DocumentRoot (from originally /var/www/html) to /var/www/html/public and activated mod_rewrite to make Laravel work.

This image also contains latest composer/composer⁠ version.

⁠How-to

• On your local machine
  • Create a directory structure e.g. /local/src/public
  • Copy my-site.conf to /local directory (see example below)
• Download this image
• Run this image with...
  • Port = e.g. 8484
  • Volumes
    • Host path = /local/src
    • Container path = /var/www/html
• Now create/copy your index.php in directory /local/src/public (see example below)
• Call http://localhost:8484/⁠
  • ...you should now see information about your installed PHP version

When this works you can start deploying/developing your Laraval application in /local/src folder...

⁠Sample files

my-site.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public

    <Directory /var/www/html/public>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

index.php

<?php

echo phpinfo();