🚀 PHP 7.0 + Apache + MySQL + phpMyAdmin (Dockerized)

This project provides a Dockerized development environment for a legacy PHP 7.0 application with Apache, MySQL 5.7, and phpMyAdmin.

📦 Services

• Web (PHP 7.0 + Apache)

  • Based on php:7.0.33-apache
  • Includes required PHP extensions (pdo_mysql, mysqli, mbstring, zip, gd, etc.)
  • Apache runs on port 80
  • Custom php.ini and apache configs included

• Database (MySQL 5.7)

  • Root password: root
  • Default database: Mylokal120818
  • Default user: mylokals_user / mylokals_pass
  • Configurable via docker/mysql/my.cnf
  • Data stored in a named volume mysql_data

• phpMyAdmin

  • Accessible at http://localhost:8081
  • Username: root
  • Password: root
  • Upload limit: 5G

• 🐳 Custom Entrypoint Script

  We use a custom Docker entrypoint script to ensure Yii runtime and assets directories are writable before Apache starts. This script also fixes permissions for the webservices folder.

  • 🔑 Purpose
    • Ensures runtime and assets folders exist and are writable.
    • Applies correct ownership for Apache (www-data).
    • Starts Apache with the proper permissions.

📂 Project Structure

You can download the complete Docker setup from the link below:

🔗 Docker Setup (ZIP): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1O2aOVk_Y7r18J7RF8jruYbUa_hohN43V

After downloading (Docker setup zip.zip) and extracting the ZIP file, you will find the following directory structure:

├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── docker/
│ ├── apache/
│ │ └── 000-default.conf
│ ├── php/
│ │ └── php.ini
│ ├── mysql/
│ │ ├── init/ # Initialization scripts
│ │ └── my.cnf # Custom MySQL config
│ └── phpmyadmin/
│ | └── php.ini
│ └── docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
├── web/
│ └── Mylokal-A # Your application source code
| └── Services-A # Your application source code
└── /home/ubuntu54/HDD/Clients/Rakesh # Your application source code (mounted volume)

🔧 Usage

1. Build & Start Containers

• For latest version of Docker Compose, use the docker compose command:
• For older versions of Docker Compose, use the docker-compose command:

1.1 To build containers:

• Before running docker compose build, make sure the required SQL seed file is placed in docker/mysql/init/. Contact Rakesh if you need the latest copy.

docker compose build

or

docker-compose build

1.2 After successful build, run:

docker compose up -d

or

docker-compose up -d

1.3 Access Services

• During the first build the MySQL container imports all seed data—this can take 10‑20 minutes. Let the process finish before logging in so you don’t run into missing tables or partial data.

App → http://localhost

phpMyAdmin → http://localhost:8081

2. Stop Containers

docker compose down

or

docker-compose down

⚙️ Configuration

Apache

The default DocumentRoot points to /var/www/html. Mount the project source code to the configured host directory:

<Project Root Directory>:/var/www/html

Example: My Cloned project → /web Then it will become:

/web:/var/www/html

Need to update the docker-compose.yml file with the new path inside the web service volumes accordingly.

MySQL

Configurable in docker/mysql/my.cnf. Initialization scripts can be added under docker/mysql/init/.

phpMyAdmin

Config file at docker/phpmyadmin/php.ini.

🐳 Tips

• In Docker Compose, every service you define in docker-compose.yml gets a service name. That service name is then used when:

• Running commands like docker compose logs, docker compose exec, etc.

• Naming the default container (Docker usually prefixes it with the project name).

Here:

• web → is the service name for your PHP 7.0 + Apache container.

• db → is the service name for MySQL.

• phpmyadmin → is the service name for phpMyAdmin.

🐳 Usage of web

• When you run:

docker compose logs -f web

or

docker-compose logs -f web

• It means:
  • 👉 "Show me the logs of the container(s) running under the service named web".
• Similarly, to get inside that container:

docker compose exec web bash

• This attaches you to the PHP + Apache container defined under web.

• ✅ So, web is not random — it is the service name defined in your docker-compose.yml under services

To access the PHP container shell:

docker exec -it <container_name> bash

To reset MySQL data:

docker volume rm <project_name>\_mysql_data