How to Deploy a PHP Application with Nginx and MySQL Using Docker and Docker Compose for Developments
- Prerequisites
- Directory Structure
- Docker compose file
- Nginx default configuration file to run your PHP application
- Dockerfile for PHP-FPM
- Docker runner in Linux or Docker-Desktop with WSL in Windows
├── docker-compose.yml
├── nginx
│ ├── default.conf
│ └── Dockerfile
├── php
│ └── Dockerfile
└── www
└── html
└── index.php
The file is shown below.
You can change the value of environment variables as per your need.
Remembering that if you change the root password environment variable MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD you will also have to change it in line 16 that tests if the database is up
version: '2.1'
services:
db:
image: mysql:5.7
container_name: mysql-container
environment:
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret
- MYSQL_DATABASE=mydb
- MYSQL_USER=myuser
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=password
ports:
- '3306:3306'
volumes:
- './data:/var/lib/mysql'
healthcheck:
test: 'mysqladmin ping -h localhost -psecret'
interval: 30s
timeout: 30s
retries: 3
fpm:
build: ./php/
container_name: php-container
expose:
- 9000
links:
- db
volumes:
- "./www/html/:/var/www/html/"
depends_on:
db:
condition: service_healthy
web:
build: ./nginx/
container_name: nginx-container
ports:
- 8080:80
links:
- fpm
volumes:
- "./www/html/:/var/www/html/"
depends_on:
fpm:
condition: service_startedT
The nginx configuration file is in the path nginx/default.conf and is also shown below.
server {
listen 80 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.html index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;
sendfile off;
client_max_body_size 100m;
location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass fpm:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
}
location ~ /.ht {
deny all;
}
} The Dockerfile file is in the path php/Dockerfile and is also shown below.
FROM php:7.0-fpm
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql If you need to add other php dependencies please change the dockerfile for your need.
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