apache-php

Compose sample application

Use with Docker Development Environments

You can open this sample in the Dev Environments feature of Docker Desktop version 4.12 or later.

Open in Docker Dev Environments

PHP application with Apache2

Project structure:

.
├── compose.yaml
├── app
    ├── Dockerfile
    └── index.php

compose.yaml

services:
  web:
    build: app
    ports: 
      - '80:80'
    volumes:
      - ./app:/var/www/html/

Deploy with docker compose

$ docker compose up -d
Creating network "php-docker_web" with the default driver
Building web
Step 1/6 : FROM php:7.2-apache
...
...
Creating php-docker_web_1 ... done

Expected result

Listing containers must show one container running and the port mapping as below:

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                        COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                  NAMES
2bc8271fee81        php-docker_web               "docker-php-entrypoi…"   About a minute ago  Up About a minute   0.0.0.0:80->80/tc    php-docker_web_1

After the application starts, navigate to http://localhost:80 in your web browser or run:

$ curl localhost:80
Hello World!

Stop and remove the containers

$ docker compose down