Dev environment

Dev environment using docker containers to run various servers and services

Setup

• Make sure docker is installed
• Run dev.sh setup
• After the build is completed, a new directory will be created called projects
• Clone or create your projects in this directory

Register a new website/application

• copy the template.conf in docker/nginx into docker/nginx/sites
• rename the new file as per your needs
• edit the file and change the follow strings
  • [site domain here] to your domain name. eg: example.test
  • [app public folder here] to point to your site public folder
• start/restart the contianers

Helpful info

• To start the containers: while in this folder run sudo docker compose up . This command will run docker in the foreground.
• Connecting your application to mariadb server
  • host: db
  • username: root
  • pasword: dbpassword
• Running composer, yarn or npm should be done in the phpfpm container
• To login to the phpfpm container execture: sudo doker-compose exec phpfpm bash . Once logged in, you will be in the projects directory
• Add data that needs persisting, eg: mariadb databases, are store in the respective container folder. eg: mariadb databases are stored in docker/db/data
• Running sh dev.sh will display instructions on how to ssh into the other containers

Important

• Make sure your fake domain are recorded in your hosts file