Docker LAMP Stack

This is now deprecated in favor of https://github.com/joschi127/tugger

A simple LAMP stack designed for running a local development environment for Apache, MySQL, PHP in a Docker container.

It is based on a Debian image and will use chef-solo / berkshelf provisioning to setup the web server environment.

Install in you project

Clone this repo into a subfolder named Docker within your web project's root folder:

cd /path/to/project-name
git clone https://github.com/joschi127/docker-lamp-stack.git Docker

If you want to use this for several projects you have to install a copy for each project for now.

Build Docker image

To build the image from the Dockerfile run:

cd /path/to/project-name/Docker
docker build -t docker_lamp_stack .

This has to be done once only. You can use the created Docker image for several projects by creating one container per project.

Create and run new container

To create a container running the image use the following command:

cd /path/to/project-name/Docker
docker run --name project-name --hostname project-name -v $HOME/.ssh/:/home/webserver/.ssh/ -v $HOME/.gitconfig:/home/webserver/.gitconfig -v $(dirname $(pwd)):/var/www/webproject/ -t docker_lamp_stack /bin/bash /var/www/webproject/Docker/init.sh

Stop running container

To stop a running container use:

docker stop project-name

Start existing container

To restart an existing container use:

docker start -i project-name

Delete container

To delete a container:

docker rm project-name

Show running containers and running processes

To show the running containers use:

docker ps

To show the latest container, no matter if running or stopped:

docker ps -l

To show all containers, including stopped containers: (add -s to show the size)

docker ps -a

To show the processes in a running container you can use:

docker top project-name

Find IP of running container

To find the IP of a container you can use:

docker inspect project-name | grep IPAddress

SSH into running container

To access a shell in the container, use SSH like this:

# replace 172.17.0.2 with the IP of your container
ssh webserver@172.17.0.2

Your project folder (/path/to/project-name in the example commands above) will be mounted under /var/www/webproject in the container.

So to execute command line tools (like for example composer) in your container, chdir into this folder:

cd /var/www/webproject
# then for example you can call: composer install -o

Access webserver of running container

Just open the container IP in your browser: (from the same computer that is running the docker container)

http://172.17.0.2

For accessing the webserver from other devices in your LAN (for example from a mobile device) you can open a SSH tunnel to map a port:

# replace 172.17.0.2 with the IP of your container
ssh -f -N -L *:8080:localhost:80 webserver@172.17.0.2

Then you should be able to access the webserver from other devices in your LAN by opening an URL like this:

# replace 10.0.0.123 with the LAN IP of the machine which is running the docker container
http://10.0.0.123:8080

Manage images

Save the state of a container as image:

docker stop project-name
docker commit project-name project-name-image

Run again from saved state:

cd /path/to/project-name/Docker
docker run --name project-name --hostname project-name -v $HOME/.ssh/:/home/webserver/.ssh/ -v $HOME/.gitconfig:/home/webserver/.gitconfig -v $(dirname $(pwd)):/var/www/webproject/ -t project-name-image /bin/bash /var/www/webproject/Docker/init.sh [ --reprovision ]

To show available images use:

docker images

To delete an image:

docker rmi project-name-image