Goal

The goal of this repo is to setup a local server for PHP development, in combination with MariaDB and PHP. We'll be using Docker for this.

Installation

Docker

Download Docker at https://www.docker.com/get-started and select Intel or Mac chip
Open the dmg file en follow the instructions to install Docker on your machine.

Web 2 server installation

With Docker you can setup different "containers" to run specific stacks on your machine.

Download this project at https://github.com/devinekask/web2-docker/archive/main.zip
Extract the zip file into the folder where you want to keep all your files for this course
You'll see a folder called docker and a folder called www. Create an additional folder called db in the same location.
Right click on the start file and choose open. You might get a notification the file isn't from the App Store. You may ignore this and open the file.
Your Terminal should open and execute a few commands. The very first time this might take a couple of minutes.

Web 2 server usage

Once the server is running (using the start script), you can use the server as follows:

Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost. You should see an overview of your PHP installation.
All files and folders inside of the www/html folder are accessible through http://localhost
You can shut down the server by opening the stop script.