Secure Laravel app as a Docker container

Laravel setup include

• Admin Authentication
• Admin Panel
• User Authentication
• API versioning (eg: api/v1)
• API authentication using Sanctum
• VSCODE settings for Xdebug

For SSL you need to generate certificate files

Certificate files should be inside docker/apache/ssl folder.

Setup LAMP environment using Docker

Custom docker images for PHP/MySQL Applications

• apache
• php (8.0.3) / (7.4)
• mysql (8.0.23) / (5.7)

Build custom images

Go inside docker folder

cd docker

Execute these commands to build images

For PHP 7.4 and MySQL 5.7

$ docker image build --no-cache -f php74.Dockerfile -t php74-apache-ssl-dev .
$ docker image build --no-cache -f mysql57.Dockerfile -t mysql57-dev .

For PHP 8.0 and MySQL 8.0

$ docker image build --no-cache -f php803.Dockerfile -t php803-apache-ssl-dev .
$ docker image build --no-cache -f mysql8.Dockerfile -t mysql8-dev .

Config all settings for docker-compose.yml

Move out of docker directory

cd ..

Copy .env.example file in the root folder to .env

Change settings in .env for as required

Make changes to php and mysql images in docker-compose.yml for required version.

Start/Stop all services in containers:

Execute the following command to Start

$ docker-compose up -d 

Execute the following command to Stop

$ docker-compose down

Run composer inside php service

docker-compose exec php composer --version

Run php artisan inside php service

docker-compose exec php php artisan env

Run npm commands inside npm service

docker-compose run --rm npm npm install
docker-compose run --rm npm npm run dev

To browse website

Add following entry in /etc/hosts file

127.0.0.1       website.local

For HTTP access use http://website.local:8080
For HTTPS access use https://website.local:8443
For HTTP access use https://website.local:8080/admin
For HTTPS access use https://website.local:8443/admin
For PhpMyAdmin access use https://website.local:8081

VSCODE Xdebug Config settings

{
    "name": "Listen for XDebug on Docker",
    "type": "php",
    "request": "launch",
    "port": 9000,
    "log": true,
    "externalConsole": false,
    "stopOnEntry": false,
    "pathMappings": {
        "/var/www": "${workspaceFolder}/src"
    },
}