Contao Docker Container

• Based on CentOS 7
• Apache 2.4 (event)
• PHP 7.3
• Preinstalled composer
• Auto-adjust DocumentRoot for Contao 4
• Configured for Contao CMS
• Ability to change UID of Apache to circumvent permission problems
• Includes some useful tools and presets like git, curl, bashrc and vimrc
• Xdebug (disabled by default), Imagemagick, php-(bcmath,intl,json,mbstring,mcrypt,mysql,snmp,soap,xml)

Usage

// Start MySQL/MariaDB first
sudo docker run --rm --name mysql \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root \
  -v $HOME/contao/_db:/var/lib/mysql \
  mariadb

// take contao installation from $HOME/contao/contao
sudo docker run --rm --name contao \
  -v $HOME/contao/contao:/var/www \
  --link mysql:mysql \
  -p 80:80 \
  -e RUN_UID=$UID \
  -e XDEBUG=true \
  -e PHP_VALUE=max_execution_time=90,memory_limit=512M \
  psitrax/contao

// enter the Container
sudo docker exec -ti contao bash
root at 53e71dbf4adc in ~ su apache
apache at 53e71dbf4adc in /var/www ~ composer create-project contao/standard-edition website

// if permission problems occour change owner
root at 53e71dbf4adc in ~ chown -R apache /var/www

// or managed edition
apache at 53e71dbf4adc in /var/www ~ composer create-project contao/managed-edition website

apache at 53e71dbf4adc in /var/www ~ mv website/* website/.gitignore .
// Restart Container to detect Contao 4

Configuration

Use Environment Variables for Configuration

• TIMEZONE=America/New_York Adjust the timezone (Default: Europe/Berlin)
• RUN_UID The UID of internal apache User. Set it to your local UID to prevent file access problmes while developing.
• XDEBUG=true Enable xdebug (disabled by default)
• PHP_VALUE / PHP_ADMIN_VALUE / PHP_FLAG Overwrite arbitrary PHP settings: eg max_execution_time=90,memory_limit=512M

Maintainer

• Christoph Wiechert wio@psitrax.de