About this example

The purpose of this repository is to provide an all-in-one development envrionment for laravel using docker. This repository, is not super generalized or setup for production. It's suppose to be an alternative to homestead. We're including a custom "document" root directory which contains our web application. When we run the container, we will mount this volume within the container.

Building the container

The following Docker build command creates the container image. Basically it makes sure your docker file is not doing anything crazy. It download Ubuntu and some of the other packages you will be installing. It does not fun the container.

If you want php 7.0

$ git checkout php-7.0

 $ docker build -t laravel:nginx-mysql-php-7.0 .

Running the container

Download a copy of laravel and place it in the app folder The following Docker run command will get the container running with a published port and mounted volumes in place:

 $ docker run --name laravel-app -p 8080:80 -p 3306:3306 -e USER_NAME=`whoami` -v `pwd`:/usr/local/app:rw -v `pwd`/logs:/var/log/nginx:rw -d laravel:nginx-mysql-php-7.0

Log into the terminal

$ docker exec -it laravel-app bash

Testing the application

visit http://localhost:8080/

To start the container

$ sudo docker start laravel-app

To stop the container

$ sudo docker stop laravel-app

To restart the container

$ sudo docker restart laravel-app

To delete the container

Deleting the container will delete any data inside the container. ie. the data in your db will not be preserved

$ sudo docker rm laravel-app

To delete the image

Deleting the images means you will have to re-download Ubuntu and all the packages. Unless they are cached.

$ sudo docker rmi laravel:nginx-mysql

Access mysql from the host machine

Even though the port has been exposed on the box. The permissions have not been granted to access mysql from anywhere. To activate that run this command. A line has been added to the .bashrc to grant privs. Check for it in start.sh

$ sudo docker exec -it laravel-app bash

Inside container:

/# sudo service mysql restart
/# mysql < /mysql_permissions.sql 

To connect to mysql from your host machine, run the following command on your host machine:

$ docker inspect laravel-app | grep IPAddress

Take the IP address that appears and use it in this command on your host machine:

mysql -h <ip address> -P 3306 -u root

Run Gulp

Log in to the container

$ docker exec -it laravel-app bash

Switch the user to user on your host machine. It was created when the container was created

$ sudo su <username>

Navigate to the app directory in the container

$ cd /usr/local/app

Run Gulp

$ gulp watch