Getting Started

Requirements

Installation

Choose the setup the best suits your needs.

A) Setup for Single Project

(Follow these steps if you want a separate Docker environment for each project)

A.1) Already have a PHP project:

(Follow these steps if you already have a PHP project, and all you need is an environment to run it)

1 - Clone laradock on your project root directory:

git submodule add https://github.com/Laradock/laradock.git

Notes:

  • If you are not using Git yet for your project, you can use git clone instead of git submodule.

  • Note 2: To keep track of your Laradock changes, between your projects and also keep Laradock updated. Check this

Your folder structure should look like this:

- project1
	- laradock
- project2
	- laradock

A.2) Don’t have a PHP project yet:

(Follow these steps if you don’t have a PHP project yet, and you need an environment to create the project)

1 - Clone this repository anywhere on your machine:

git clone https://github.com/laradock/laradock.git

Your folder structure should look like this:

- projects
	- laradock
	- myProject

2 - Edit the docker-compose.yml file to map to your project directory once you have it (example: - ../myProject:/var/www).

3 - Stop and re-run your docker-compose command for the changes to take place.

docker-compose stop && docker-compose up -d XXXX YYYY ZZZZ ....

B) Setup for Multiple Projects:

(Follow these steps if you want a single Docker environment for all project)

1 - Clone this repository anywhere on your machine:

git clone https://github.com/laradock/laradock.git

2 - Edit the docker-compose.yml (or the .env) file to map to your projects directories:

    applications:
        volumes:
            - ../project1/:/var/www/project1
            - ../project2/:/var/www/project2

3 - You can access all sites by visiting http://localhost/project1/public and http://localhost/project2/public but of course that’s not very useful so let’s setup NGINX quickly.

4 - Go to nginx/sites and copy sample.conf.example to project1.conf then to project2.conf

5 - Open the project1.conf file and edit the server_name and the root as follow:

    server_name project1.dev;
    root /var/www/project1/public;

Do the same for each project project2.conf, project3.conf,…

6 - Add the domains to the hosts files.

127.0.0.1  project1.dev

7 - Create your project Databases. Right now you have to do it manually by entering your DB container, until we automate it soon.

Usage

Read Before starting:

If you are using Docker Toolbox (VM), do one of the following:


Warning: If you used an older version of Laradock it’s highly recommended to rebuild the containers you need to use see how you rebuild a container in order to prevent as much errors as possible.


1 - Run Containers: (Make sure you are in the laradock folder before running the docker-compose commands).

Example: Running NGINX and MySQL:

docker-compose up -d nginx mysql

Note: The workspace and php-fpm will run automatically in most of the cases, so no need to specify them in the up command. If you couldn’t find them running then you need specify them as follow: docker-compose up -d nginx php-fpm mysql workspace.

You can select your own combination of Containers form the list below:

nginx, hhvm, php-fpm, mysql, redis, postgres, mariadb, neo4j, mongo, apache2, caddy, memcached, beanstalkd, beanstalkd-console, rabbitmq, beanstalkd-console, workspace, phpmyadmin, aerospike, pgadmin, elasticsearch, rethinkdb, postgres-postgis, certbot, mailhog, minio and more…!

(Please note that sometimes we forget to update the docs, so check the docker-compose.yml file to see an updated list of all available containers).


2 - Enter the Workspace container, to execute commands like (Artisan, Composer, PHPUnit, Gulp, …).

docker-compose exec workspace bash

Alternatively, for Windows PowerShell users: execute the following command to enter any running container:

docker exec -it {workspace-container-id} bash

Note: You can add --user=laradock to have files created as your host’s user. Example:

docker-compose exec --user=laradock workspace bash

You can change the PUID (User id) and PGID (group id) variables from the docker-compose.yml or the .env)


3 - Edit your project configurations.

Open your .env file and set the DB_HOST to mysql:

DB_HOST=mysql

If you want to install Laravel as PHP project, see How to Install Laravel in a Docker Container.


4 - Open your browser and visit your localhost address http://localhost/.