Apache PHP and Phalcon in Docker

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Setup your local dev environment with Apache PHP and Phalcon in Docker following these easy steps. The dockerfile below is going through some basic steps that will consists in

Installing apache and some other utils like git, curl, openssl and install the php bin and libraries needed for downloading and compiling phalcon framework. After that is enabling the mod_rewrite and after that remove the unnecessary binaries.

FROM alpine:latest 
RUN apk add --no-cache \
    apache2-proxy \
    apache2-ssl \
    apache2-utils \
    curl \
    git \
    logrotate \
    openssl \
    git bash php php7-dev apache2 gcc \
    libc-dev make php7-pdo php7-json \
    php7-session php7-pecl-psr \
    php7-apache2 
WORKDIR /
RUN git clone "https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon.git"
WORKDIR /cphalcon/build
RUN git checkout v4.1.3
RUN ./install
RUN echo "extension=phalcon.so" > /etc/php7/conf.d/phalcon.ini
RUN sed -i 's/AllowOverride None/AllowOverride All/g' /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
RUN sed -i 's/AllowOverride none/AllowOverride All/g' /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
RUN sed -i 's/#LoadModule rewrite_module modules\/mod_rewrite.so/LoadModule rewrite_module modules\/mod_rewrite.so/g' /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

RUN apk del libc-dev zlib-dev php7-dev libedit-dev musl-dev pcre2-dev ncurses-dev \
	expat xz-libs curl musl-utils make libedit zlib ncurses-libs libstdc++ pcre git bash musl argon2-libs
ENV APACHE_RUN_USER www-data
ENV APACHE_RUN_GROUP www-data
ENV APACHE_LOG_DIR /var/log/apache2

WORKDIR /var/www/localhost/htdocs
RUN echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" >  /var/www/localhost/htdocs/index.php

EXPOSE 80

CMD ["/usr/sbin/httpd", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]

All you need to do is to run this command

docker build -t my-dev-env-phalcon4 .

Enjoy

If you are interested in how to setup a Phalcon project step by step follow this link

Phalcon project from scratch step by step

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