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# LaraDock
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LaraDock helps you run your **Laravel** App on **Docker** in seconds.
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![](http://s11.postimg.org/uqpl3efab/laradock.jpg)
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## Contents
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+
+## Included Software
+
+__Docker Images:__
+
+- [NGINX+PHP](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/phpnginx/)
+- [MySQL](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/mysql/)
+- [Redis](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/redis/)
+- [Beanstalked](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/beanstalkd/)
+- [Data Volume](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/data/) (for MySQL & Redis)
+
+You can edit these images, on this repository [https://github.com/LaraDock/docker-images ](https://github.com/LaraDock/docker-images).
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+
+
+
## Requirements
- Laravel ([Download](https://laravel.com/docs/master/installation))
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- Git ([Download](https://git-scm.com/downloads))
- Composer ([Download](https://getcomposer.org/download/))
-*Note: Git & Composer can be installed on Docker Containers if you don't want to install them on your machine. (But you have to do this yourself for now).*
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-
+
## Usage
-1 - First install any version of Laravel, or use any of your existing Laravel projects.
+1 - Install any version of Laravel, or use any of your existing Laravel projects.
-2 - Open your terminal and go to your Laravel project directory.
-
-3 - Create a new folder on the root directory of your Laravel project and name it `docker` then go into it.
+2 - Clone the LaraDock repository, inside a `docker` folder, on the root directory of your Laravel project.
```bash
-mkdir docker && cd $_
+git clone https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git docker
```
-3 - Clone the LaraDock repository inside that `docker` folder.
-
-```bash
-git clone https://github.com/LaraDock/laradock.git .
-```
-
-4 - Find your Docker IP address.
+3 - Find your Docker IP address.
- If you are on Linux OS: your IP Address is `127.0.0.1` because the containers run directly on your localhost.
-- If you are on MAC or Windows OS and using the **docker-machine**: start your docker machine then type `docker-machine ip {vm-name-here}`. *(The default IP is 192.168.99.100)*
-- If you are on MAC or Windows OS and using **boot2docker**: type `boot2docker ip` when boot2docker is up.
+- If you are on MAC or Windows and using the **docker-machine**: start your docker machine then type `docker-machine ip {vm-name-here}`. *(The default IP is 192.168.99.100)*
+- If you are on MAC or Windows and using **boot2docker**: type `boot2docker ip` when boot2docker is up.
-5 - Open your hosts file `/etc/hosts`.
+4 - Open your hosts file `/etc/hosts`.
```bash
sudo nano /etc/hosts
```
-6 - Map your `Docker IP` to the `laravel.dev` domain, by adding the following to the `hosts` file.
+5 - Map your `Docker IP` to the `laravel.dev` domain, by adding the following to the `hosts` file.
```bash
-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx laravel.dev
+xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx laravel.dev
```
Don't forget to replace the `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx` with your Docker IP Address.
-7 - Open `docker-compose.yml` file and replace the `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx` with your Docker IP Adress as well.
+6 - From the new created `docker` folder in step 2, open the `docker-compose.yml` file to replace the `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx` with your Docker IP Adress as well.
-8 - Open your Laravel's `.env` file and set the `DB_HOST` and the `REDIS_HOST` to `laravel.dev` instead of the default `127.0.0.1`.
+7 - Open your Laravel's `.env` file and set the `DB_HOST` and the `REDIS_HOST` to `laravel.dev` instead of the default `127.0.0.1`.
```env
DB_HOST=laravel.dev
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SESSION_DRIVER=redis
```
-9 - Finally run the containers. Make sure you are in the `docker` folder before running this command.
+8 - Finally run the containers. Make sure you are in the `docker` folder before running this command.
```bash
docker-compose up -d
```
-*"Note: Only the first time you run this command, it will take up to 7 minutes (depend on your connection speed) to download the images to your local machine.*
+*"Note: Only the first time you run this command, it will take up to 5 minutes (depend on your connection speed) to download the images to your local machine.*
-10 - Open your browser and visit `http://laravel.dev`
+9 - Open your browser and visit `http://laravel.dev`
> Debugging: in case you faced an error here, it might be that you forget to provide some permissions for Laravel, so try running the following command on the Laravel root directory:
`sudo chmod -R 777 storage && sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap/cache`
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-
-
-## Docker Images
-
-__Currently Supported Docker Images:__
-
-- [NGINX+PHP](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/phpnginx/)
-- [MySQL](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/mysql/)
-- [Redis](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/redis/)
-- [Beanstalked](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/beanstalkd/)
-- [Data Volume](https://hub.docker.com/r/laradock/data/) (for MySQL & Redis)
-
-You can add/edit all the images on this repository https://github.com/LaraDock/docker-images
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## Documentation
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The Log files are stored in the `docker/logs` directory.
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## Contributing
This little project was built by one man who has a full time job and many responsibilities, so if you like this project and you find that it needs a bug fix or support for new software or upgrade for the current containers, or anything else.. Do not hesitate to contribute, you are more than welcome :)