contao-docker-test

#Installation:

Go to root folder and create new image named ‘spt-docker-contao’ via console: docker build -t spt-docker-contao .
After image creation create docker containers: docker-compose up -d
Create a database for contao in database container:
- An easy way to do so is to open up the “Database”-Tab of PhpStorm
- Click on “+” -> Data Source -> MariaDB
- Add a name to configuration e.g. contao-db
- Host: localhost
- Port: 3306
- User: root (according to database-service in docker-compose.yml)
- Password: root (according to database-service in docker-compose.yml)
- Once you’re connected go to Query Console (icon at the top “QL”) and create the database for contao
  - Enter the following line into the console and press the “play”-button to execute the query:
  - CREATE DATABASE contao CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
  - The database name is free to chose but in this example the database name ‘contao’ is being used
Open contao manager in browser after database creation in order to install contao
- Step through the installation process until you get to enter the database credentials
- NOTE: the ‘host’ isn’t ‘localhost’ here, use the name of the database service ‘database’ from the docker-compose.yml
- Finish the installation and have fun :)
- Contao will be available here: http://localhost/contao

Some important information

The database content is stored in a container which is bind-mounted to the ‘db’-folder of the project
If you should renew your containers, make sure you don’t delete this folder, since all database data is contained in there
Even if the container will be removed, the database data still exists in this folder and the data will be provided for the database container through the bind-mounting if you create a new database container
To enter a container e.g. the contao container run docker exec -it contao /bin/bash.
- After this you’re directly within the container and can browse through it’s content via console.
- If you did changes e.g. in the composer.json on your host machine (your computer - not within a container) to install or update bundles, then run e.g. composer install within the container
- If you do changes on you host machine, these changes will be also available for the container via bind-mounting
To exit the container, simply run exit and you’ll get back to the console of your host machine ;)