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PHP Projects

TL;DR

1. Create folder ${HOST_PATH_HTTPD_DATADIR}/my-project/htdocs
2. Set ${TLD_SUFFIX} in the .env file (example: loc)
3. Expand docker host /etc/hosts with 127.0.0.1 my-project.loc or attach included DNS server to your host and stop worrying about DNS
4. Browse http://my-project.loc

Adding projects

As an example, we are going to add two projects.

Prerequisites (dir)

For this case let's assume your www root folder points to ~/www. This means your projects will reside on your host computer in your home directory under www.

In order to achive this set HOST_PATH_HTTPD_DATADIR=~/www in the .env file (If this file does not yet exist, copy env-example to .env).

.env:

...
HOST_PATH_HTTPD_DATADIR=~/www
...

Prerequisites (domain suffix)

Let's also assume that you have chosen *.loc as you projects TLD_SUFFIX Domain

In order to achive this set TLD_SUFFIX=loc in the .env file (If this file does not yet exist, copy env-example to .env).

.env:

...
TLD_SUFFIX=loc
...

Desired Projects

Project name	Document Root	URL
devilbox	~/www/devilbox/htdocs	http://devilbox.loc
foo.bar	~/www/foo.bar/htdocs	http://foo.bar.loc

htdocs can either be a folder or a symlink to a folder.

Project: devilbox

Setup projects folder and an index.php (on your host computer)

$ mkdir -p ~/www/devilbox/htdocs
$ vim ~/devilbox/htdocs/index.php

<?php
echo 'hello world';
?>

Adjust your local (host computer) /etc/hosts and point devilbox.loc to your localhost address 127.0.0.1

$ sudo vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 devilbox.loc

Project: foo.bar

Setup projects folder and use existing github project to serve.

$ mkdir -p ~/www/foo.bar
$ cd ~/www/foo.bar

# Use an existing github project as your document root
$ git clone https://github.com/<user>/<some-project>

# Symlink the project to htdocs
$ ln -s <some-project> htdocs

$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 4 cytopia 1286676289  136 Oct 30 14:24 <some-project>/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 cytopia 1286676289  549 Nov  6 15:13 htdocs -> <some-project>/

Adjust your local (host computer) /etc/hosts and point foo.bar.loc to your localhost address 127.0.0.1

$ sudo vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 foo.bar.loc