Testing out Docker with php

Moving along in the Docker series it’s time to try set up a php container. We won’t go down the database route just yet so will be trying to just get a standard php config dump going.

May as well pull the image it’s the biggest so far

docker pull php:5.6-apache

Create a directory for the project cd into it and create a php file e.g

vi info.php

And the contents of a test php file, this one dumps out the environment details

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

then run docker from the project directory

docker run --rm -p 80:80 --name my-apache-php-app -v "$PWD":/var/www/html php:5.6-apache

You should now be able to go to http://<your docker machine>/info.php and see the standard php info dump.

I’m liking this Docker thing.