Docker compose environment for Symfony (also works for Laravel or plain PHP) projects

• PHP 8.4 with XDEBUG 3
• Apache2
• MySQL 8.0
• PhpMyAdmin - manage MySQL
• Mailhog - local mailing server
• Installs composer command
• Virtualhost configuration dedicated for Symfony projects

• Docker and Docker Compose (Install docker compose)
• Makefile (Optional) (sudo apt install make)

• cd to-your-project
• git clone https://github.com/kasteckis/symfony-docker-compose.git
• mv ./symfony-docker-compose/.docker ./.docker
• mv ./symfony-docker-compose/Makefile ./Makefile
• mv ./symfony-docker-compose/docker-compose.yml ./docker-compose.yml
• mv ./symfony-docker-compose/docker-compose.xdebug.yml ./docker-compose.xdebug.yml
• rm -rf ./symfony-docker-compose
• docker compose up

By default you can access services via:

• Access your project website via - http://localhost/
• MySQL can be accessed via localhost:3306
• PhpMyAdmin can be accessed via http://localhost:81
• Mailhog can be accessed via http://localhost:8025/ (SMTP Port is 1025)
• Access docker apache-php terminal by writing - docker exec -it project_web bash (or make ssh)

If you use default IP addresses, append your .env file with the following:

• For database connection -DATABASE_URL=mysql://project:project@mysql:3306/project
• For mailing server - MAILER_DSN=smtp://user:pass@mailhog:1025 (You can you any user and password)

• You can connect to your MySQL via localhost:3306
• If you don't have any additional software, you can connect to database via phpmyadmin (http://localhost:81)
• Username: project
• Password: project
• Default table is called project

• I use this configuration on Windows 11 with WSL 2
• You cannot use same container_name for multiple projects. Make sure to change them, or you can just delete that optional argument from docker-compose.yml file
• You can't run multiple projects that allocate same ports on your localhost.
• If you can't compose a new project, you might need to delete your old docker networks. Type docker network ls and then remove your old project network by writing docker network rm NETWORK_ID (for example docker network rm 528d8c753c17)
• cannot start service XXX: network YYY not found. Open up container list with docker container ls -a and remove old containers with docker container rm ID.

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