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I asked a question few days ago about preparing a laravel project in Docker with postgresql
(https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/docker-laravelpostgresql-translation-to-hostname)
Everything worked well (thanks to the answer I get).
The yaml file is this one:
version: '3'
services:
nginx:
image: nginx:stable-alpine
container_name: nginx
ports:
- "8080:80"
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
- ./nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
depends_on:
- php
- database
database:
build:
context: ./postgresql
dockerfile: Dockerfile.db
container_name: postgresql
environment:
- POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust
- POSTGRES_USER=XXXX
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=XXXX
- POSTGRES_DB=XXXX
restart: always
tty: true
ports:
- "5433:5432"
php:
build:
context: ./php
dockerfile: Dockerfile
container_name: php
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
ports:
- "9000:9000"
Now that everything is working i thought about using GitHub to make some tests and change only the project section. My .gitignore is like this one:
src/vendor
src/node_modules
src/public/storage
src/Homestead.yaml
src/Homestead.json
src/.env
Now when i pull the repo and do "docker-compose up -d --build", I get internal server error. Checking the logs I discovered that the vendor/autoload.php (and probably all the vendor files) is not present.
So i thought about running "composer install".
Now, my problem is that I don't know where and how to set that command.
Nginx starts only after php and postgresql has started. So where should i put the
RUN composer install
?? I tried inside the Dockerfile of the php
FROM php:7.2-fpm
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libpq-dev
RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_pgsql pgsql
RUN ln -s /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
RUN sed -i -e 's/;extension=pgsql/extension=pgsql/' /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
RUN sed -i -e 's/;extension=pdo_pgsql/extension=pdo_pgsql/' /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini
RUN apt-get install -y nodejs npm
COPY --from=composer /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer
RUN composer install
RUN npm install
but I get the error becasue it says it doesn't found var/www/html/composer.json.
So I thought that maybe I should run the composer command after nginx (the last container to start) has started.
Is there a way to achieve this?
I have a image just for composer that I can call like this
docker-compose run --rm composer --version
The image looks like this
composer:
image: composer:latest
container_name: composer
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
working_dir: /var/www/html
networks:
- laravel
ah, ok!... so where should i put it? Before calling nginx or after that? I mean, should i put:
depends on:
nginx
And after i have an image how do i tell it to run composer install?
Do i create the dockerfile for it?
Just put it in your docker-compose file.
Mine looks like this
version: '3.8'
networks:
laravel:
name: laravel
services:
nginx:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: nginx.dockerfile
container_name: nginx
depends_on:
- php
- mysql
ports:
- 80:80
- 443:443
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
networks:
- laravel
php:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: php.dockerfile
container_name: php
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
networks:
- laravel
mysql:
image: mysql:5.7.32
container_name: mysql
ports:
- 3306:3306
volumes:
- ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql
networks:
- laravel
environment:
MYSQL_DATABASE: laraveldb
MYSQL_USER: laravel
MYSQL_PASSWORD: secret
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: secret
composer:
image: composer:latest
container_name: composer
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
working_dir: /var/www/html
networks:
- laravel
artisan:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: php.dockerfile
container_name: artisan
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
working_dir: /var/www/html
entrypoint: ["php", "artisan"]
networks:
- laravel
npm:
image: node:13.7
container_name: npm
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
working_dir: /var/www/html
entrypoint: ['npm']
networks:
- laravel
phpunit:
build:
context: .
dockerfile: php.dockerfile
container_name: phpunit
volumes:
- ./src:/var/www/html
working_dir: /var/www/html
entrypoint: ["/var/www/html/vendor/bin/phpunit"]
networks:
- laravel
And to run composer install
docker-compose run --rm composer install
thank you Tray2.
It is not working, but only because I think the project was developed with Laravel 5.2 and the vendor files I have to recreate need an old Composer Version. Problem is I don't know which version of Composer I need to load into Docker.
Thanks alot for this @Tray2....Please could you share the content of your dockerfiles(php & nginx) as well
I tried also to upload the vendor folder to github but when I "docker-compose up" it gives me the following error:
*1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning: require(/var/www/html/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
The strange thing is that I have a folder with the working laravel+nginx docker. If i copy the entire folder inside another folder (so the exact same structure) I get this error:
file_put_contents(/var/www/html/storage/framework/views/370c6bf25b91fa287e800b2ca0d47ef59c8e5dbe.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied
Even if I do a sudo chmod 777 for storage and database folders inside 'src' folder before launching "docker-compose", the problem remains
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