How to create a Docker image for PHP and Node?

Question

I am trying to create a Cocker container for my Angular that has a PHP file in it. Angular requires npm so I need to have Node.js installed. I don\'t need Apache for my proj

Answer 1

I suggest you do it differently. Since php is longer than install, use the php image and install node.

FROM php:5.6-apache

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y node npm
#WORKDIR is /var/www/html
COPY . /var/www/html/
RUN npm install

And then you have apache2 provides .php files.

Answer 2

I think in this case the better way is using node docker image and PHP docker image together like bellow and not installing one of them by using apt-get install

FROM node:latest AS node
FROM php:7.4-fpm

COPY --from=node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /usr/local/lib/node_modules
COPY --from=node /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/node
RUN ln -s /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js /usr/local/bin/npm

RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app

COPY package.json /usr/src/app
RUN npm install

COPY . /usr/src/app

in this way you don't need to install either node or PHP package every time that you change your code and rebuild from scratch is required in your Dockerfile