🚀 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

├── 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. To build containers:

docker compose build

or

docker-compose build

1. After successful build, run:

docker compose up -d

or

docker-compose up -d

2. Access Services

App → http://localhost

phpMyAdmin → http://localhost:8081

3. 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