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When you are working on Laravel projects, sometimes you may want to use Docker for local development. Docker makes it easy to run PHP, Apache, and MySQL without installing them directly on your system. This setup will help you to get started quickly with Laravel and Docker.

In this tutorial, I will show you step by step how you can set up Laravel with Apache, PHP, and MySQL inside Docker. We will use Dockerfile and docker-compose to configure everything. You just need to follow each step carefully.

Step 1: Create Laravel Project

To start with, we need a fresh Laravel project. Run the below command to create it:

laravel new my-app

Step 2: Create Dockerfile

Now create a Dockerfile in the root directory. This file will define how PHP and Composer will be installed.

Dockerfile

FROM php:8.3-fpm

WORKDIR /var/www/html

RUN apt-get update & apt-get install -y \
    libzip-dev \
    unzip \
    & docker-php-ext-install zip pdo_mysql

# Install Composer
COPY --from=composer:latest /usr/bin/composer /usr/bin/composer

COPY . /var/www/html

# Install PHP dependencies
RUN composer install

RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
RUN chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/storage /var/www/html/bootstrap/cache /var/www/html/vendor
RUN chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/storage /var/www/html/bootstrap/cache /var/www/html/vendor

EXPOSE 80

Step 3: Create Apache Config File

Next, we will add an Apache config file. This will tell Apache how to serve the Laravel project.

.docker/apache/default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/public

    <Directory /var/www/html/public>
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Step 4: Create docker-compose.yml

Finally, we will create a docker-compose.yml file to define our services like web and database.

docker-compose.yml

services:
  web:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    image: my-laravel-app
    volumes:
      - .:/var/www/html
      - /var/www/html/storage
      - /var/www/html/bootstrap/cache
      - ./.docker/apache/default.conf:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
    working_dir: /var/www/html
    user: "www-data"

  db:
    image: mysql:8.0
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
      MYSQL_DATABASE: laravel
      MYSQL_USER: laravel
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: secret
    ports:
      - "3307:3306"
    volumes:
      - dbdata:/var/lib/mysql

volumes:
  dbdata:

Run Laravel App:

All the required steps have been done, now you have to type the given below command and hit enter to run the Laravel app:

php artisan serve

Now, Go to your web browser, type the given URL and view the app output:

http://localhost:8080

Now you can use.