Default version of PHP is set to 7.3.
Current settings (php.ini) are geared toward development environments since errors are verbose.
Image can be built by running:
.\build-image.bat
Run the container to see the demo application:
docker run -p 8080:80 -d php7_apache_app
You should see the PHP Info page when visiting:
http://localhost:8080/
By default, the application www directory is copied into the image at build time so it's packaged for a release. However, while developing, this is obviously an
unusable work pattern so it's ideal to mount the directory as a volume when starting the container:
docker run -p 8080:80 -d -v c:\my\path\to\www:/var/www/site php7_apache_app
Usually when developing locally, you'll run a local MySQL client (whether Docker-ized or not) on your host machine, but it's a bit difficult to connect to it from a container running on that host machine. Without configured DNS, Docker needs to know that "localhost" refers to the host machine versus the image itself. Luckily there's a special domain called host.docker.internal that can be used to reference the host machine; however, apparently it only works on Windows after recent Docker updates. You can pass it in as an environment variable and implement it accordingly in your connection string:
docker run -p 8080:80 -d -v c:\my\path\to\www:/var/www/site -e MYSQL_SERVER_ADDRESS='host.docker.internal' php7_apache_app