Deploying Laravel in Docker container

Prerequisite

1. Create the db user used by the web app
2. Initiate Laravel project beforehand
3. Copy the Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, and
    Docker folder into your main directory of your project
4. Copy Makefile if you want to use shorthand commands for docker commands

Changing the port Nginx is listening from

Go to ./Docker/default.conf and change the value from '8000' to any other port

Running web application in HTTPS

Go to sudo nano ./app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php add this condition to boot() function

\URL::forceScheme('https');

Running MySQL ^8.0

In MySQL ^8.0, the way it handles authentication is different. It is important to change the way MySQL identify user, reverting it back to be identifiable by password. Run in MySQL CLI:

ALTER USER '{your_username}'@'{localhost}' 
IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '{your_password}';

Makefile commands

Building Laravel php image into laravel-docker:latest

make build

Stopping web application stack, stopping all running containers

make stop

Starting web application stack, bringing up all containers

make up

Bringing down the entire stack and removing the containers

make down

Do a fresh startup of the web app as if it was just deployed

make restart

Starting web application stack while rebuillding the image from the beginning

make ub

Enter php CLI environment, for running php and artisan commands to the web application

make it

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