Docker Php Application Example

We can run php application using docker. In the following steps, we are creating and running php application.

1. Create a directory

Create a directory to organize files by using following command.

$ mkdir php-docker-app

See, screen shot of the above command.


2. Create a Php File

// index.php

<?php echo ?Hello, Php?; ?>
3. Create a DockerFile

// Dockefile

FROM php:7.0-apache COPY . /var/www/php

After that our project has two files like the below screen-shot.


4. Create Docker Image
$ docker build -t php-app .

In the below screen-shot, we are creating docker image.



Now look for the available images in the docker container.



The above screen-shot shows that the created image php-app is available.

5. Run the Docker image

Now run the docker image. The following command is used to run docker images.

$ docker run php-app


We can see that our docker image is running and output is shown to the browser. This image is running on the 172.17.0.2 ip.

Output: