docker-php7.4-kitematic

Simple docker image optimised for easy use to run PHP 7.4-latest applications on Apache with an external path, easy to setup.

Installation

Commandline

docker run -p 8000:80 -p 8443:443 --volume ~/my-php-app:/app -d bananaacid/docker-php7.4-kitematic

To use this image with Kitematic:

In Kitematic, press + New and search for docker-php7.4-kitematic and press its create button.
You can read up on how to do this here: https://kitematic.com/docs/
if you have trouble finding it, to make it available in Kitematic and docker, you can use: docker pull bananaacid/docker-php7.4-kitematic

Intended workflow using Kitematic

install docker (and within its menu, Kitematic)
get going with this readme
place your PHP files in connected folder on your computer to be used by the container

...

start the container (e.g. in Kitematic)
edit your files, use git or alike
reload your browser

...

stop the container
turn off your computer

Using your own PHP files through Kitematic

In Kitematic,

if you pulled an image or deleted a container, you can create a new container from + New -> My Images and click create.

click your new container in the containers area
in the Volumes area klick on /app to generate a local folder automatically or use Settings -> Volumes -> /app -> Change to select a specific folder where your PHP files will go
click on the preview picture (it might not update immediately) to open your page in the browser

Any errors will be shown in the container logs area (Apache logs and PHP error log). The used Ports will be visible and changeable in the Settings tab.

Manual usage

To grap it from the online repository (if not yet pulled) and use it right away:

docker run -p 8000:80 -p 8443:443 --volume ~/my-php-app:/app  bananaacid/docker-php7.4-kitematic

to control it with Kitematic, only configure basics (-p is optional; Kitematic would assign random ports), use:

docker run -d -p 8000:80 -p 8443:443 bananaacid/docker-php7.4-kitematic

-p outside:inside can be used to setup a port into the container - http://localhost:8000 (443 is the SSL enabled port).
-d will run it in the background, other wise, all container output goes to the current console.
~/my-php-appreferes to the user folder from where the PHP files should be used - can also be activated within Kitematic.
--name my-php-app_container added before the image name, will create a container with a meaningful name.
added SSL + SSL config (v1.1)

Enable .htaccess files

If you app uses .htaccess files you need to pass the ALLOW_OVERRIDE environment variable

docker run -d -p 80:80 -e ALLOW_OVERRIDE=true bananaacid/docker-php7.4-kitematic

or set it in Kitematic Settings -> General -> Environment Variables.

Using SSL

The volume /ssl-crt (with --volume ~/my-php-app-ssl:/ssl-crt) can be used to add your own .crt renamed as server.pem and server.key to be used by apache. Set a port to 443 to access it.

An example to generate those files could be with openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 10950 -newkey rsa:2048 -out server.pem -keyout server.key

Add the localhost.crt or your owhn server.pem as .crt file to your local certificate storage to remove SSL security errors (usually double clicking it).

If you get an error telling you SSLCertificateFile: file '/ssl-cert/server.pem' does not exist or is empty you have 3 options:

add a server.pem and server.key
Kitematic: remove the volume's local folder - Settings -> Volumes -> click the remove button next to /ssl-cert
command line: remove your --volume ???:/ssl-cert param

Direct download links (official)

No docker registration required.

Windows https://download.docker.com/win/stable/Docker%20for%20Windows%20Installer.exe

MAC https://download.docker.com/mac/stable/Docker.dmg

Improvements

Based on the work of:

Phil Plückthun, 'docker-php-kitematic'
Fernando Mayo fernando@tutum.co, 'apache-php'

... over docker-php-kitematic

The following things were added/changed:

PHP 7.4 Update, with FastCGI
all apache / php logs are visible to the console
revamped the default webpage placeholder to be more generic
webpage placeholder has a link to an added phpinfo file
makefile configured to be used for building the image and testing it
SSL added, certificates are exchangeable

... over apache-php

This fork was optimised to support Kitematic.