title: 4. Guides type: index
Create Droplet
button.One-click apps
tab.Find the IP address of the droplet in the DigitalOcean interface. Use it to connect to the server.
ssh root@ipaddress
You may be prompted for a password. Type the one you found within your e-mailbox. It'll then ask you to change the password.
You can now check if Docker is available:
$root@server:~# docker
$root@server:~# apt-get install git
$root@server:~# git clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel
$root@server:~# cd laravel
$root@server:~/laravel/ git submodule add https://github.com/Laradock/laradock.git
$root@server:~/laravel/ cd laradock
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# cp env-example .env
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# docker-compose up -d nginx mysql
Note that more containers are available, find them in the docs or the docker-compose.yml
file.
docker-compose exec workspace bash
If you want to only execute some command and don't want to enter bash, you can execute docker-compose run workspace <command>
.
docker-compose run workspace php artisan migrate
Let's install Laravel's dependencies, add the .env
file, generate the key and give proper permissions to the cache folder.
$ root@workspace:/var/www# composer install
$ root@workspace:/var/www# cp .env.example .env
$ root@workspace:/var/www# php artisan key:generate
$ root@workspace:/var/www# exit
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# cd ..
$root@server:~/laravel# sudo chmod -R 777 storage bootstrap/cache
You can then view your Laravel site by visiting the IP address of your server in your browser. For example:
http://192.168.1.1
It should show you the Laravel default welcome page.
However, we want it to show up using your custom domain name, as well.
Login to your DNS provider, such as Godaddy, Namecheap.
Point the Custom Domain Name Server to:
ns1.digitalocean.com
ns2.digitalocean.com
ns3.digitalocean.com
Within DigitalOcean, you'll need to change some settings, too.
Visit: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/networking/domains
Add your domain name and choose the server IP you'd provision earlier.
Go back to command line.
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# cd nginx
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock/nginx# vim laravel.conf
Remove default_server
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
And add server_name
(your custom domain)
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;
server_name yourdomain.com;
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# docker-compose down
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# docker-compose build nginx
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock/nginx# docker-compose up -d nginx mysql
View Your Site with HTTP ONLY (http://yourdomain.com)
Note: You need to Use Caddy here Instead of Nginx
To go Caddy Folders and Edit CaddyFile
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# cd caddy
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock/caddy# vim Caddyfile
Remove 0.0.0.0:80
0.0.0.0:80
root /var/www/public
and replace with your https://yourdomain.com
https://yourdomain.com
root /var/www/public
uncomment tls
#tls self-signed
and replace self-signed with your email address
tls serverbreaker@gmai.com
This is needed Prior to Creating Let's Encypt
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# docker-compose up caddy
You'll be prompt here to enter your email... you may enter it or not
Attaching to laradock_mysql_1, laradock_caddy_1
caddy_1 | Activating privacy features...
caddy_1 | Your sites will be served over HTTPS automatically using Let's Encrypt.
caddy_1 | By continuing, you agree to the Let's Encrypt Subscriber Agreement at:
caddy_1 | https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.0.1-July-27-2015.pdf
caddy_1 | Activating privacy features... done.
caddy_1 | https://yourdomain.com
caddy_1 | http://yourdomain.com
After it finishes, press Ctrl
+ C
to exit.
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# docker-compose down
$root@server:~/laravel/laradock# docker-compose up -d mysql caddy
View your Site in the Browser Securely Using HTTPS (https://yourdomain.com)
Note that Certificate will be Automatically Renew By Caddy
References:
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-16-04
- https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/docker/
- https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/ubuntulinux/
- https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
- https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https
- https://caddyserver.com/docs/tls
- https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile
This is a guide to run Dusk tests in your workspace
container with headless
google-chrome and chromedriver. It has been tested with Laravel 5.4 and 5.5.
Update your .env with following entries:
...
# Install Laravel installer bin to setup demo app
WORKSPACE_INSTALL_LARAVEL_INSTALLER=true
...
# Install all the necessary dependencies for running Dusk tests
WORKSPACE_INSTALL_DUSK_DEPS=true
...
Then run below to build your workspace.
docker-compose build workspace
Run a workspace
container and you will be inside the container at /var/www
directory.
docker-compose run workspace bash
/var/www#> _
Create new Laravel application named dusk-test
and install Laravel Dusk package.
/var/www> laravel new dusk-test
/var/www> cd dusk-test
/var/www/dusk-test> composer require --dev laravel/dusk
/var/www/dusk-test> php artisan dusk:install
Create .env.dusk.local
by copying from .env
file.
/var/www/dusk-test> cp .env .env.dusk.local
Update the APP_URL
entry in .env.dusk.local
to local Laravel server.
APP_URL=http://localhost:8000
You will need to run chromedriver with headless
and no-sandbox
flag. In Laravel Dusk 2.x it is
already set headless
so you just need to add no-sandbox
flag. If you on previous version 1.x,
you will need to update your DustTestCase#driver
as shown below.
<?php
...
abstract class DuskTestCase extends BaseTestCase
{
...
/**
* Update chrome driver with below flags
*/
protected function driver()
{
$options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments([
'--disable-gpu',
'--headless',
'--no-sandbox'
]);
return RemoteWebDriver::create(
'http://localhost:9515', DesiredCapabilities::chrome()->setCapability(
ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options
)
);
}
}
You could choose to use either:
workspace
container. (Required tweak on DuskTestCase class)For Laravel Dusk 2.x, you need to update DuskTestCase#prepare
method if you wish to go with option #2.
<?php
...
abstract class DuskTestCase extends BaseTestCase
{
...
public static function prepare()
{
// Only add this line if you wish to use chrome driver installed in workspace container.
// You might want to read the file path from env file.
static::useChromedriver('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver');
static::startChromeDriver();
}
For Laravel Dusk 1.x, you need to add DuskTestCase#buildChromeProcess
method if you wish to go with option #2.
<?php
...
use Symfony\Component\Process\ProcessBuilder;
abstract class DuskTestCase extends BaseTestCase
{
...
/**
* Only add this method if you wish to use chrome driver installed in workspace container
*/
protected static function buildChromeProcess()
{
return (new ProcessBuilder())
->setPrefix('chromedriver')
->getProcess()
->setEnv(static::chromeEnvironment());
}
...
}
Run local server in workspace
container and run Dusk tests.
# alias to run Laravel server in the background (php artisan serve --quiet &)
/var/www/dusk-test> serve
# alias to run Dusk tests (php artisan dusk)
/var/www/dusk-test> dusk
PHPUnit 6.4.0 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
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Time: 837 ms, Memory: 6.00MB
Setting up Laravel Dusk tests to run with Laradock appears be something that eludes most Laradock users. This guide is designed to show you how to wire them up to work together. This guide is written with macOS and Linux in mind. As such, it's only been tested on macOS. Feel free to create pull requests to update the guide for Windows-specific instructions.
This guide assumes you know how to use a DNS forwarder such as dnsmasq
or are comfortable
with editing the /etc/hosts
file for one-off DNS changes.
According to RFC-2606, only four TLDs are reserved for local testing[^1]:
.test
.example
.invalid
.localhost
A common TLD used for local development is .dev
, but newer versions of Google
Chrome (such as the one bundled with the Selenium Docker image), will fail to
resolve that DNS as there will appear to be a name collision.
The recommended extension is .test
for your Laravel web apps because you're
running tests. Using a DNS forwarder such as dnsmasq
or by editing the /etc/hosts
file, configure the host to point to localhost
.
For example, in your /etc/hosts
file:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 myapp.test
This will ensure that when navigating to myapp.test
, it will route the
request to 127.0.0.1
which will be handled by Nginx in Laradock.
In order to make the Selenium container talk to the Nginx container appropriately,
the docker-compose.yml
needs to be edited to accommodate this. Make the following
changes:
...
selenium:
...
depends_on:
- nginx
links:
- nginx:<your_domain>
This allows network communication between the Nginx and Selenium containers
and it also ensures that when starting the Selenium container, the Nginx
container starts up first unless it's already running. This allows
the Selenium container to make requests to the Nginx container, which is
necessary for running Dusk tests. These changes also link the nginx
environment
variable to the domain you wired up in your hosts file.
In order to make Laravel Dusk make the proper request to the Selenium container,
you have to edit the DuskTestCase.php
file that's provided on the initial
installation of Laravel Dusk. The change you have to make deals with the URL the
Remote Web Driver attempts to use to set up the Selenium session.
One recommendation for this is to add a separate config option in your .env.dusk.local
so it's still possible to run your Dusk tests locally should you want to.
...
USE_SELENIUM=true
abstract class DuskTestCase extends BaseTestCase
{
...
protected function driver()
{
if (env('USE_SELENIUM', 'false') == 'true') {
return RemoteWebDriver::create(
'http://selenium:4444/wd/hub', DesiredCapabilities::chrome()
);
} else {
return RemoteWebDriver::create(
'http://localhost:9515', DesiredCapabilities::chrome()
);
}
}
}
Now that you have everything set up, to run your Dusk tests, you have to SSH into the workspace container as you normally would:
Once inside, you can change directory to your application and run:
php artisan dusk```
One way to make this easier from your project is to create a helper script. Here's one such example:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
LARADOCK_HOME="path/to/laradock"
pushd ${LARADOCK_HOME}
docker-compose exec --user=laradock workspace bash -c "cd my-project && php artisan dusk && exit"
This invokes the Dusk command from inside the workspace container but when the script completes execution, it returns your session to your project directory.
[^1]: Don't Use .dev for Development
Wiring up Laravel, Laradock [Laravel+Docker] and PHPStorm to play nice together complete with remote xdebug'ing as icing on top! Although this guide is based on PHPStorm Windows
,
you should be able to adjust accordingly. This guide was written based on Docker for Windows Native.
laradock
. This guide assumes /c/_dk/laravel
.Add laravel
to your hosts file located on Windows 10 at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
. It should be set to the IP of your running container. Mine is: 10.0.75.2
On Windows you can find it by opening Windows Hyper-V Manager
.
Hosts File Editor makes it easy to change your hosts file.
laravel
to your docker host IP. See Example.Your PHPStorm will need to be able to receive a connection from PHP xdebug either your running workspace or php-fpm containers on port 9000. This means that your Windows Firewall should either enable connections from the Application PHPStorm OR the port.
Set the following variables:
### Workspace Utilities Container ###############
workspace:
build:
context: ./workspace
args:
- INSTALL_XDEBUG=true
- INSTALL_WORKSPACE_SSH=true
...
### PHP-FPM Container #####################
php-fpm:
build:
context: ./php-fpm
args:
- INSTALL_XDEBUG=true
...
laradock/workspace/xdebug.ini
laradock/php-fpm/xdebug.ini
Set the following variables:
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_connect_back=1
xdebug.cli_color=1
Make sure you are starting with a clean state. For example, do you have other Laradock containers and images? Here are a few things I use to clean things up.
grep laradock_
on the names, see: Remove all containers based on docker image name.docker ps -a | awk '{ print $1,$2 }' | grep laradock_ | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -I {} docker rm {}
laradock
.docker images | awk '{print $1,$2,$3}' | grep laradock_ | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -I {} docker rmi {}
Note: This will only delete images that were built with Laradock
, NOT laradock/*
which are pulled down by Laradock
such as laradock/workspace
, etc.
Note: Some may fail with:
Error response from daemon: conflict: unable to delete 3f38eaed93df (cannot be forced) - image has dependent child images
I added this to my .bashrc
to remove orphaned images.
dclean() {
processes=`docker ps -q -f status=exited`
if [ -n "$processes" ]; then
docker rm $processes
fi
images=`docker images -q -f dangling=true`
if [ -n "$images" ]; then
docker rmi $images
fi
}
If you frequently switch configurations for Laradock, you may find that adding the following and added to your .bashrc
or equivalent useful:
# remove laravel* containers
# remove laravel_* images
dcleanlaradockfunction()
{
echo 'Removing ALL containers associated with laradock'
docker ps -a | awk '{ print $1,$2 }' | grep laradock | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -I {} docker rm {}
# remove ALL images associated with laradock_
# does NOT delete laradock/* which are hub images
echo 'Removing ALL images associated with laradock_'
docker images | awk '{print $1,$2,$3}' | grep laradock_ | awk '{print $3}' | xargs -I {} docker rmi {}
echo 'Listing all laradock docker hub images...'
docker images | grep laradock
echo 'dcleanlaradock completed'
}
# associate the above function with an alias
# so can recall/lookup by typing 'alias'
alias dcleanlaradock=dcleanlaradockfunction
# barebones at this point
docker-compose up -d nginx mysql
# run
docker-compose ps
# Should see:
Name Command State Ports
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
laradock_mysql_1 docker-entrypoint.sh mysqld Up 0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp
laradock_nginx_1 nginx Up 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp
laradock_php-fpm_1 php-fpm Up 9000/tcp
laradock_volumes_data_1 true Exit 0
laradock_volumes_source_1 true Exit 0
laradock_workspace_1 /sbin/my_init Up 0.0.0.0:2222->22/tcp
In a host terminal sitting in the laradock folder, run: ./php-fpm/xdebug status
You should see something like the following:
xDebug status
laradock_php-fpm_1
PHP 7.0.9 (cli) (built: Aug 10 2016 19:45:48) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Xdebug v2.4.1, Copyright (c) 2002-2016, by Derick Rethans
Other commands include ./php-fpm/xdebug start | stop
.
If you have enabled xdebug=true
in docker-compose.yml/php-fpm
, xdebug
will already be running when
php-fpm
is started and listening for debug info on port 9000.
Here are some settings that are known to work:
Settings/BuildDeploymentConnection
Settings/BuildDeploymentConnectionMappings
Settings/BuildDeploymentDebugger
Settings/EditRunConfigurationRemoteWebDebug
Settings/EditRunConfigurationRemoteExampleTestDebug
Settings/LangsPHPDebug
Settings/LangsPHPInterpreters
Settings/LangsPHPPHPUnit
Settings/LangsPHPServers
RemoteHost
To switch on this view, go to: Menu/Tools/Deployment/Browse Remote Host
.
RemoteWebDebug
EditRunConfigurationRemoteWebDebug
Go to: Menu/Run/Edit Configurations
.
EditRunConfigurationRemoteExampleTestDebug
Go to: Menu/Run/Edit Configurations
.
WindowsFirewallAllowedApps
Go to: Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Windows Firewall\Allowed apps
.
hosts
Edit: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
.
tests/ExampleTest.php
Run 'ExampleTest.php'
or Ctrl+Shift+F10
.tests/ExampleTest.php
$this->visit('/')
tests/ExampleTest.php
In case xDebug is disabled, from the laradock
folder run:
./php-fpm/xdebug start
.
./php-fpm/xdebug stop
Start Remote Debugging
Open to edit: bootstrap/app.php
Add a BreakPoint on line 14: $app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(
Reload Laravel Site
Assuming that you are in laradock folder, type:
ssh -i workspace/insecure_id_rsa -p2222 root@laravel
Cha Ching!!!!
workspace/insecure_id_rsa.ppk
may become corrupted. In which case:
puttygen
workspace/insecure_id_rsa
workspace/insecure_id_rsa.ppk
Kitty KiTTY is a fork from version 0.67 of PuTTY.
Make sure you have followed the steps above in the Install Xdebug section.
Make sure Xdebug accepts connections and listens on port 9000. (Should be default configuration).
laradock
(matches PHP_IDE_CONFIG key in environment file) and make sure to map project root path with server correctly.