Docker Symfony Starter Kit

Starter kit is based on The perfect kit starter for a Symfony 4 project with Docker and PHP 7.2.

What is inside?

• Apache 2.4.66 (Debian)
• PHP 8.5 FPM
• MySQL 8.3
• NodeJS LTS (latest)
• Composer
• Symfony CLI
• xdebug
• djfarrelly/maildev

Requirements

• Install Docker and Docker Compose on your machine

Installation

• (optional) Add

127.0.0.1   symfony.local

in your host file.

• Run build-env.sh (or build-env.ps1 on Windows box)

• Enter the PHP container:

docker-compose exec php bash

• To install Symfony LTS inside container execute:

cd app
rm .gitkeep
git config --global --add safe.directory /home/wwwroot/app
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
symfony new ../app --version=lts --webapp
chown -R dev.dev *

Container URLs and ports

• Project URL

http://localhost:8000

or

http://symfony.local:8000

• MySQL

  • inside container: host is mysql, port: 3306
  • outside container: host is localhost, port: 3307
  • passwords, db name are in docker-compose.yml

• djfarrelly/maildev i available from the browser on port 8001

• xdebug i available remotely on port 9000

• Database connection in Symfony .env file:

DATABASE_URL=mysql://symfony:symfony@mysql:3306/symfony?serverVersion=5.7

Useful commands

• docker compose up -d - start containers
• docker compose down - stop containers
• docker compose exec php bash - enter into PHP container
• docker compose exec mysql bash - enter into MySQL container
• docker compose exec apache bash - enter into Apache2 container