How to work with Laravel and Docker

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Using Laravel and Docker

by Timo Stankowitz [email protected]

The latest version of Laravel with Apache webserver in just one Docker container.

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Create a new project with composer

Don't create an extra directory. Comperser will do this for you. The folder name will be project-name (change to your actual project name).

Make sure you have the latest version of the composer docker image: docker pull composer

docker run -u 1000 --rm -v $(pwd):/app composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel *project-name*

This can take up to 5 minutes.

start your application with artisan

The simplest way is to create a Dockerfile in you root directory with touch Dockerfile. Copy and paste the following content:

FROM php:7.4-apache
LABEL maintainer="Timo Stankowitz <[email protected]>"

RUN a2enmod rewrite

COPY config/apache.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

RUN rmdir /var/www/html

COPY ./ /var/www/

# update permission
RUN chown -R www-data: /var/www/bootstrap/cache/
RUN chmod -R 777 /var/www/storage/
RUN chmod -R 777 /var/www/bootstrap/cache/

Create docker-compose.yml

Replace project-name with your actually project name.

version: '3'
services:
  project-name:
    image: php:7.4
    networks:
      - project-name
    ports:
      - 80:8000
    working_dir: "/mount"
    entrypoint: ["php", "artisan", "serve", "--host=0.0.0.0"]
    volumes:
      - ./:/mount

networks:
  project-name:
    driver: bridge
    ipam:
      driver: default
      config:
        - subnet: 172.29.1.0/24      

and run docker-compose up

Open a webbrowser and open localhost