PHP HTTP Request Handler Template with Nginx

This GitHub repository provides a comprehensive Nginx server setup optimized for PHP applications, specifically tailored for deploying web APIs. It includes a ready-to-use template designed to streamline the development and deployment process on Railway platforms. This setup is ideal for developers looking to quickly and efficiently launch PHP-based APIs with Nginx, ensuring compatibility and performance on Railway deployments.

Informações traduzidas para português do Brasil em ./docs/README_ptBR.md

Dependencies

This template has some dependencies that need to be installed on your current workspace:

• Docker: Mainly used for local testing
• PHP 8.0: The current used programming language and it's minimum version
• Composer: PHP package manager

1st Step: Domain name

In your local host machine add the following lines to your /etc/hosts file in order to find the application.

127.0.0.1   choir.api.com

2nd Step: Preparing the environment

Build your custom Docker Image running ./docker/build.sh

Exceptions:

• In case you are having some permission troubles, use sudo to execute the fallowing files

3rd Step: Running Docker

docker-compose up: Standalone version

docker-compose up -d: Daemon version

Exceptions:

• If the daemon is not allawing you to use the 0.0.0.0:80 port, change the docker-compose.yml file to expose the port 81:

    expose:
      - 3000
      - 81
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
      - 81:81

4th Step: Check your browser

Open http://choir.api.com/ and check the headers on your devtools, and you should see this entry ping: "pong".