Using Docker to Setup a Basic Lamp Environment

A basic example of setting up a LAMP stack from scratch using Docker.

Create a file in your project directory called docker-compose.yml and add the following Docker settings:

version: '3'
services:
  db:
    image: mysql:latest
    environment:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: lamp_demo
      MYSQL_USER: lamp_demo
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: password
      MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 1
    volumes:
      - "./db:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d"
    networks:
      - lamp-docker
  www:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: php:8.1.1-apache
    volumes:
      - "./:/var/www/html"
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    networks:
      - lamp-docker
    command: "/bin/sh -c 'docker-php-ext-install mysqli && exec apache2-foreground'"
  phpmyadmin:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
    ports:
      - 8001:80
    environment:
      - PMA_HOST=db
      - PMA_PORT=3306
    networks:
      - lamp-docker
networks:
  lamp-docker:
    driver: bridge

Using a terminal, navigate to the same folder as your docker-compose.yml file and run the following command:

docker-compose up

To shut the container down push CTRL C and then run the folloeing command:

docker-composer down

Note

The most recent PHP/Apache Docker image does not include the mysqli library. This additional step needs to be completed:
docker-library/php#391

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