README

You need to have Docker and Docker Compose installed on your server to proceed using this PHP environment.

The following three separate service containers will be used:

• An app service running PHP 8 FPM.
• A db service running MySQL.
• An nginx service that uses the app service to parse PHP code before serving the application to the final user.

Running the environment

• Set the MySQL environment variables creating a .env file based on the .env.example file.

• Build the app image with the following command:

docker-compose build app

• When the build is finished, you can run the environment in background mode with:

docker-compose up -d

• To show information about the state of your active services, run:

docker-compose ps

You can use the docker-compose exec command to execute commands in the service containers, such as an ls -l to show detailed information about files in the application directory:

docker-compose exec app ls -l

• Now go to your browser and access your server’s domain name or IP address on port 8000: http://server_domain_or_IP:8000. In case you are running this demo on your local machine, use http://localhost:8000 to access the application from your browser.

• You can use the logs command to check the logs generated by your services:

docker-compose logs nginx

• If you want to pause your Docker Compose environment while keeping the state of all its services, run:

docker-compose pause

• You can then resume your services with:

docker-compose unpause

• To shut down your Docker Compose environment and remove all of its containers, networks, and volumes, run:

docker-compose down