A basic docker web stack with NGINX, Php, Redis, and Mysql
Basic Usage
- Clone into your local project directory.
- Obviously you have to have docker installed (and running), as well as docker compose ;) https://www.docker.com/
- On the command line cd into the directory and run
docker-compose up --build -d - Visit localhost:8080 in your favorite browser.
That's it!
Special Notes:
- IMPORTANT This is a local set up. Everything except MYSQL container can be deployed (with some tweaking), but it is not a good idea to deploy MYSQL as a docker container.
- You can now copy any files that you want to serve into the src directory.
- If you want you can update the variables in the .env file. Be aware that this could break things.
- For whatever reason it takes some time before the database accepts log ins. You will likely see an error the first time you load the test page. Wait a bit (seconds not minutes) and refresh. It should eventually show up.
Deploying
There are really only a few things you need to do in order to deploy these containers. Setting up a server that can run the containers is beyond the scope here. But once you have something set up (there are many options - Amazon ECS is one example) here are the basics steps to proceed.
- Instead of mounting the src directory, you should copy the files to the appropriate containers (Nginx and PHP).
- You will probably want to change the exposed http port to be standard (port 80).
- You definitely want to only use the MYQL container locally, so your code may need to be updated to point to a specific databse instance.
- Then just build and tag the containers and push them to your server. Again the specifics of how to do this are beyond the scope of this project.
Final Word
This is a simple way to get started with a dockerized web stack. However I have not done any optimizing of this configuration. That part is up to you!