blueant-allan/docker-cakephp4_php8

Docker dev-config file for CakePHP 4.x and PHP version 8.x

Dockerfile development configuration

For CakePHP version 4.x running on PHP version 8.x. With Ubuntu 20.04 as base image

Stack

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Nginx
• PHP-FPM
• PHP version 8.0.3
• CakePHP vesion 4.x
• Mail Hog

Loaded PHP Extensions

• Mysql
• Intl
• Mbstring
• Zip
• Xml
• Sqlite3

Compile the docker file

docker build -t cakephp4_php8-image -f Dockerfile.dev .

Create instance of the container

docker run -p 8080:80 -dit --name conainer_name-web --env MAILHOG_SMTP_IP_ADDR=172.17.0.3 --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/var/www/html cakephp4_php8-image

Manage the container

docker exec -it conainer_name-web bash

Usage

1. You can start by create a CakePHP project via composer

composer create-project --prefer-dist cakephp/app:~4.0 <project_name>

2. MailHog container dependency. It is assumed that you have a MailHog container running in your environment. If you do not have one execute the following on your command line to create one. You can then access your MailHog UI by going to this address http://localhost:8025

# Create a MailHog container
docker run -dit --name mailhog -p 1025:1025 -p 8025:8025 mailhog/mailhog

3. Build the dockerfile configuration and create a container for it.

4. Now that you have your container setup, let us setup CakePHP

docker exec -it <project-name> bash
	
# let us complete the CakePHP installation
php composer.phar install

This document assumes that you have composer.phar file.

5. You should be able to load your web-application from your browser with the port you incidated above. Example: http://localhost:8080

6. Update your app-config file so that you can connect to your database