Table of Contents

• Installation
• Quick Start
• Persistence
• Linked to other container
• Adding PHP-extension
• Logging
• Out of the box

Installation

• Install Docker 1.9+ or askubuntu
• Pull the latest version of the image.

docker pull romeoz/docker-apache-php

or other versions (7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 5.6, 5.5, 5.4 or 5.3):

docker pull romeoz/docker-apache-php:7.1

Alternately you can build the image yourself.

git clone https://github.com/romeoz/docker-apache-php.git
cd docker-apache-php
docker build -t="$USER/docker-apache-php" .

Quick Start

Run the application container:

docker run --name app -d -p 8080:80 romeoz/docker-apache-php

The simplest way to login to the app container is to use the docker exec command to attach a new process to the running container.

docker exec -it app bash

Development/Persistence

For development a volume should be mounted at /var/www/app/.

The updated run command looks like this.

docker run --name app -d -p 8080:80 \
  -v /host/to/path/app:/var/www/app/ \
  romeoz/docker-apache-php

This will make the development.

Linked to other container

As an example, will link with RDBMS PostgreSQL.

docker network create pg_net

docker run --name db -d romeoz/docker-postgresql

Run the application container:

docker run --name app -d -p 8080:80 \
  --net pg_net \
  -v /host/to/path/app:/var/www/app/ \
  romeoz/docker-apache-php

Adding PHP-extension

You can use one of two choices to install the required php-extensions:

1. docker exec -it app bash -c 'apt-get update && apt-get install php-mongo && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*'

2. Create your container on based the current. Сontents Dockerfile:

FROM romeoz/docker-apache-php:5.6

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y php-mongo \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* 

WORKDIR /var/www/app/

EXPOSE 80 443

CMD ["/sbin/entrypoint.sh"]

Next step,

docker build -t php-5.6 .
docker run --name app -d -p 8080:80 php-5.6

See installed php-extension: docker exec -it app php -m

PHP-extension "Mcrypt" was REMOVED in PHP 7.2. Use Sodium or OpenSSL

Logging

All the logs are forwarded to stdout and sterr. You have use the command docker logs.

docker logs app

####Split the logs

You can then simply split the stdout & stderr of the container by piping the separate streams and send them to files:

docker logs app > stdout.log 2>stderr.log
cat stdout.log
cat stderr.log

or split stdout and error to host stdout:

docker logs app > -
docker logs app 2> -

####Rotate logs

Create the file /etc/logrotate.d/docker-containers with the following text inside:

/var/lib/docker/containers/*/*.log {
    rotate 31
    daily
    nocompress
    missingok
    notifempty
    copytruncate
}

Optionally, you can replace nocompress to compress and change the number of days.

Out of the box

• Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 16.04 or 18.04 LTS
• Apache 2.4.x/2.2.x
• PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3
• Composer (package manager)

Environment depends on the version of PHP.

License

Apache + PHP docker image is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license