Tag: php

I wanted to get my old wordpress 3.4 websites running again, so I had to build a couple docker images, and a docker compose file. This starts with Ubuntu 16, as I thought I would be able to get PHP5 on there. But in reality this container comes with PHP7 hooked up in the apt sources. So I ended up compiling PHP 5.6.40 in the container.

Base Image

# Use an Ubuntu base image
FROM ubuntu:16.04

# Set environment variables
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV PHP_VERSION=5.6.40

# Install dependencies
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    build-essential \
    apache2 \
    apache2-dev \
    libxml2-dev \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    libmysqlclient-dev \
    libreadline-dev \
    libzip-dev \
    libbz2-dev \
    libjpeg-dev \
    libpng-dev \
    libxpm-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev \
    libmcrypt-dev \
    libicu-dev \
    zlib1g-dev \
    libxslt-dev \
    libsodium-dev \
    libmagickwand-dev \
    libpcre3-dev \
    curl \
    wget \
    re2c \
    bison \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Download and extract PHP source
RUN wget --no-check-certificate https://www.php.net/distributions/php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.gz && \
    tar -xvf php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.gz && \
    rm php-${PHP_VERSION}.tar.gz

# Change directory to PHP source
WORKDIR php-${PHP_VERSION}

# Install MySQL development libraries for the mysql extension
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libmysqlclient-dev && \
    apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Reconfigure and build PHP to include the MySQL extension
RUN ./configure \
    --prefix=/usr/local/php5.6 \
    --with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs \
    --enable-maintainer-zts \
    --with-mysql \
    --with-mysqli \
    --with-pdo-mysql \
    --enable-mbstring \
    --enable-calendar \
    --enable-ctype \
    --with-curl \
    --enable-exif \
    --enable-ffi \
    --enable-fileinfo \
    --enable-filter \
    --enable-ftp \
    --with-gd \
    --with-gettext \
    --with-iconv \
    --with-imagick \
    --with-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
    --enable-json \
    --with-libxml-dir=/usr \
    --enable-mbstring \
    --with-mysqli=mysqlnd \
    --with-openssl \
    --enable-pcntl \
    --with-pcre-dir=/usr \
    --enable-pdo \
    --enable-phar \
    --enable-posix \
    --with-readline \
    --enable-session \
    --enable-shmop \
    --enable-simplexml \
    --enable-sockets \
    --with-sodium \
    --enable-sysvmsg \
    --enable-sysvsem \
    --enable-sysvshm \
    --enable-tokenizer \
    --enable-xml \
    --enable-xmlreader \
    --enable-xmlwriter \
    --with-xsl \
    --enable-opcache \
    --enable-zip \
    --with-zlib && \
    make -j$(nproc) && \
    make install

# Create a symlink for PHP to /bin
RUN ln -s /usr/local/php5.6/bin/php /bin/php

# Enable mod_rewrite module and configure Apache to allow .htaccess files
RUN a2enmod rewrite

# Configure Apache for PHP
RUN echo "LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/php5.6/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226/libphp5.so" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && \
    echo "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && \
    echo "DirectoryIndex index.php" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# Allow overrides for .htaccess files in the Apache configuration
RUN echo "<Directory /var/www/html>" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && \
    echo "    AllowOverride All" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && \
    echo "</Directory>" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

# Switch Apache to prefork MPM if needed (threaded MPM requires threadsafe PHP)
RUN a2dismod mpm_event mpm_worker && a2enmod mpm_prefork

# Copy test PHP file
RUN echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

# Expose HTTP port
EXPOSE 80

# Start Apache
CMD ["apachectl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]

The next step was adding WPCLI

# Use your custom PHP image as the base
FROM php56:latest


# Install dependencies for WP-CLI
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    curl \
    ca-certificates \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Ensure PHP is linked to /usr/local/bin/php (change path based on where PHP was compiled)
ENV PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/php5.6/bin:$PATH"
RUN ln -s /usr/local/php-5.6.40/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php

# Install WP-CLI
RUN curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar && \
    php wp-cli.phar --info && \
    chmod +x wp-cli.phar && \
    mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

# Verify WP-CLI installation
RUN wp --info

# Expose port 80 (optional)
EXPOSE 80

# Start Apache (or your desired service)
CMD ["apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]

And then using docker compose to bring up Apache / PHP / MYSQL services online:

version: '3.7'
services:
  mysql:
    image: mysql/mysql-server:5.7.37
    environment:
     MYSQL_DATABASE: webdesign
     MYSQL_USER: ROOT
     MYSQL_PASSWORD: PASSWORD
    restart: always
    volumes:
     - ./init.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql
    ports:
     - "3307:3306"
  legacy-php:
    depends_on:
     - mysql
    image: php5.6-apache-wpcli
    volumes:
     - .:/var/www/html
    ports:
     - "80:80"

Over writing the WordPress 3.4 files with 3.7 allowed me to export an XML.