Symfony Docker Setup Notes

SymfonyDockerNotes.txt

# Some notes on how to get Symfony up and running with Docker and MySQL.

# Two images are pulled down PHP-Apache and MySQL. 
# The PHP-Apache sites-available default is overwritten by a local file.
# The PHP pdo-mysql extension needs to be installed.

# docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:

  web:
    container_name: symfony_web
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: docker/web/Dockerfile
    ports:
      - "8080:80"
    volumes:
      - .:/var/www/html/symfony-starter
      - ./docker/vhosts/vhosts.conf:/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
    depends_on:
      - data
    environment:
      - APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/html/symfony-starter/public

  data:
    container_name: symfony_data
    image: mysql:5.7
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=123456
    ports:
      - "3306:3306"


# The Apache PHP 7.3 Dockerfile

FROM php:7.3-apache

RUN a2enmod rewrite headers && docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql

COPY . /var/www/html/symfony-starter

WORKDIR /var/www/html/symfony-starter


# The vhosts.conf file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot ${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}

    <Directory ${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}>
        Options Indexes
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        Require all granted
        AllowOverride all
        RewriteEngine On
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_/]+)$ index.php/$1 [L,NC]
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>