nginx-php-fpm Docker container

This container provides a basic development environment for PHP. It uses Supervisor to control PHP-FPM and nginx behind the scenes.

To add your application, make sure your source directory is mounted as a volume to /srv/www. nginx has been configured to serve the /srv/www/public directory by default.

Because it uses the php image as a basis, see that image's documentation for instructions on how to add extensions to your own version of this container.

This container includes some common conveniences. They are:

• mysql-client
• wget
• phpunit
• pdo_mysql PHP extension
• mcrypt PHP extension
• sockets PHP extension

Using the prebuilt image

To use the prebuilt image of this, just do:

docker pull startribune/nginx-php-fpm

Exposing an app without using docker-compose

If you have a PHP application that you want to expose using this container, you can run it without having to write a Dockerfile or use docker-compose.

docker run --name my-php-app --mount type=bind,target=/srv/www/public,src=/Users/myuser/Documents/my-php-app -p 8080:80 nginx-php-fpm

Breaking the above command down, you have the following pieces:

docker run

This is how you initiate the run. Optionally, you could add the -d flag after this to run it in the background.

--name my-php-app

This is the name by which you want to refer to the running Docker container.

--mount type=bind,target=/srv/www/public,src=/Users/myuser/Documents/my-php-app

This mounts your app's source code directory into the appropriate directory in the container. Change src to be your source code directory. It must be an absolute path.

-p 8080:80

This tells Docker to expose port 80 of the container on port 8080 of your host machine, so you can reach it at http://localhost:8080/.

nginx-php-fpm

This tells Docker to run this container.