How to Setup a PHP environment using docker apache and php

As part of the docker build process we will create a phpinfo page, which we will use to verify the PHP environment settings.

update php.ini to set sys_temp_dir to “/tmp/whateverfolderyouspecify”

update php.ini to enable and set php error_log file

Linux: Install docker:

1. yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
2. yum install docker-ce
3. clone the repository

1. docker build -t phpinfo .

Explanation of the Dockerfile:

A. FROM php:7.2-apache (Pull docker image from docker hub using image name/tag php:7.2-apache).

B. COPY php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/ (Copy updated php.ini file to /usr/local/etc/php/).

C. COPY index.php /var/www/html/ (Copy index.php to apache docroot so phpinfo() function is displayed.

1. docker run -d -p 80:80 phpinfo

1. curl http://localhost on the host where you ran the container
2. Open a browser to http://ec2-52-71-64-160.compute-1.amazonaws.com/ (this is temporary and will be removed shortly).