How do I run Apache 2 on Alpine in Docker?

Question

According to Alpine wiki I have to run rc-service apache2 startafter installation of Apache 2. However, there\'s no rc-service in the Alpine running in

Answer 1

Alpine does not have rc-service installed by default. You need to install it (either as part of your Dockerfile build process or manually in the container).

The secret invocation is:

apk add openrc --no-cache

If you want to run it from outside the container (say docker run), then use:

docker run [options etc] bin/ash -c "apk add openrc --no-cache"

PS: rc-service is good for other things and stuff like mariadb (also not included in alpine)