XAMPP Stack using Docker (Compose)

You can use this stack to replace your XAMPP instances. It contains a very basic setup with:

• PHP 8.2
• MariaDB 11.3.2
• PHPMyAdmin 5.2.1

You should only use this for testing/development! It is NOT suitable for production.

Configuration

• Database:
  • Root user: root
  • Root password: root
  • Secondary user: user
  • Secondary user password: user
  • Hostname: db
  • Data is stored in the mariadb_data directory
• PHPMyAdmin:
  • Autologin using the credentials above
• PHP:
  • Enabled Apache modules: rewrite
  • Installed extensions: mysqli, pdo_mysql, pdo

Using the database in PHP

To use the database in your PHP application, you can refer to the database using it's hostname (db). Check the example src/index.php file.

Running

To run the stack, do the following:

1. Download and install Docker for your OS.
2. Clone this repo.

   $ git clone ... my-web-stack

3. Open a Terminal in the directory containing this repo.

   $ cd my-web-stack

4. Use Docker Compose to run.

   $ docker compose up --build

To run in the background you can add the -d flag to the last command, like this:

$ docker compose up -d --build

Note that you don't need to rebuild the stack every time you change the src directory.