Setting up Docker for Laravel and MySQL application

This article will briefly show you how to use Docker for Laravel and MySQL application.

Create a .docker folder right inside the project’s root folder.

Then create a Dockerfile file with the following content.

FROM php:7.4.1-apache
USER root
WORKDIR /var/www/html
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
libpng-dev \
zlib1g-dev \
libxml2-dev \
libzip-dev \
libonig-dev \
zip \
curl \
unzip \
&& docker-php-ext-configure gd \
&& docker-php-ext-install -j$(nproc) gd \
&& docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql \
&& docker-php-ext-install mysqli \
&& docker-php-ext-install zip \
&& docker-php-source delete
COPY .docker/vhost.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php — — install-dir=/usr/local/bin — filename=composer
RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html \
&& a2enmod rewrite

Then create a vhost.conf file with the following content.