A LAMP Local Development Environment on Docker

An everyday local development environment for PHP Developers. At Pivotal Agency, we've done a buuunnnch of R&D to find the best local dev tools for our team. This is the result of our hard work. This tool has been put to its paces everyday by our team, we hope it can also help yours.

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Intro 👋

This is a set of Docker images to spin up a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) for developing locally. It's perfect for local development because you can very simply add new sites to specified directory and they're magically accessible as a subdomain of your chosen hostname (eg. eg. ~/Sites/info maps to http://info.localhost/).

It includes all the required dependencies for everyday PHP development with common tools like Laravel, Wordpress and Magento (1 & 2).

Specifically, it has the following tech available:

• Debian Jessie
• PHP 7.1.x (default) and PHP 5.6.X
• MySQL 5.7
• Redis 3.x
• Memcached
• Composer
• NodeJS & NPM
• Mailhog
• Blackfire (for PHP performance testing)

We have some clever domain mapping available to allow you to run code for various platforms. Sites are accessible from the following URLs (by default it's http://<website>.localhost, however APACHE_HOSTNAME can modified in .env to point to a different hostname):

• http://info.{APACHE_HOSTNAME} (eg. http://info.localhost)
  • Will map to ~/Sites/info
• http://laravel.pub.{APACHE_HOSTNAME}
  • Will map to ~/Sites/laravel/pub
• http://sitehq.php5.{APACHE_HOSTNAME}
  • Will map to ~/Sites/sitehq and use PHP5

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Prerequisites ⚠️

• Your machine must be MacOS, Windows 10 Pro or Linux
• Your CPU must support virtualisation (Intel VT-x or AMD-V)
• You must have Docker Compose installed and Docker installed & running

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Installation 🚀

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/pvtl/docker-dev && cd docker-dev

# Create & update relevant config (eg. point sites to your sites directory)
cp .env.example .env

# Start the environment
docker-compose up -d

(Optional) If you're doing local development at .localhost for example, you may need to update your computer's hosts file to point each URL to 127.0.0.1. Eg.

# Open your hosts files (with admin rights)
sudo nano /etc/hosts

# Append each site you need to access - eg.
127.0.0.1 info.localhost

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Updating 🔄

Open a terminal window, browse to this project's folder and run:

git pull                        # 1. Pull from Git
docker-compose up -d --build    # 2. Rebuild & start the new env

*This will also install the latest versions of PHP, Redis, NodeJS and NPM.

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Common Commands 🔥

Docker must be running and commands should be run within this repo's root.

Command	Description
docker-compose up -d	Start
docker-compose down	Stop
docker exec -it web bash	SSH into web container
docker exec -it db bash	SSH into Database container
docker ps	Show which containers are running

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Connections 🚥

Email

All email is sent from the application and "caught" by Mailhog. This means that the application will send the mail, just not out to a real email. This is helpful in development, so that others aren't spammed by test emails.

You can view anything which has been sent and caught via http://localhost:8025/.

MySQL

You can connect to the MySQL server running in the container using MySQL Workbench, Navicat or Sequel Pro.

Parameter	Value
Connection	Standard TCP/IP
Host	db (from a container) OR localhost (from your computer)
Port	3306
Username	root
Password	dbroot (this can be changed in .env)

Redis

You can connect to the Redis server with:

Parameter	Value
Host	redis (from a container) OR localhost (from your computer)
Port	6379
Password	``

Memcached

You can connect to the Memcached server with:

Parameter	Value
Host	memcached (from a container) OR localhost (from your computer)
Port	11211