Symfony is a web application framework based on the PHP programming language. It is a tool that provides a ready-to-use infrastructure for managing web applications and includes a wide range of functionalities and tools that facilitate application development. Symfony is modular, allowing developers to use only the components they need for their work.
Symfony (AlmaLinux 8)
- OS: almalinux 8
Description
Software included
Package | Version |
---|---|
Symfony | 6.2 |
Docker | 3.20.10 |
Docker compose | 2.12.2 |
containerd.io | 1.6.10 |
Initial start of the service
This application uses Docker to provide faster startup of the underlying software (Symfony) and direct use of it. This eliminates the need to familiarize yourself with its specifics in terms of configuration and installation. To start working directly with the application, all you have to do is start modifying the content uploaded to /opt/symfony/my-project
. Once you've done this, you can visit the IP address assigned to your virtual machine in your browser to view the content you've uploaded.
Note: By default, Symfony can be accessed directly by IP address. To start using Symfony with your real domain, you first need to point the domain in question to your IP address and change the settings for where Symfony opens from through its admin panel.
Quick settings and frequently asked questions
- Logging into the cloud service is done using an SSH key or password that you have specified.
- Docker is installed as recommended by the official docker documentation.
- The standard
docker
anddocker compose
commands are now available in this application. - When the virtual machine is first started, it takes a few minutes before a Docker container containing Symfony is started.
- Symfony data is set to be persistent and is located in
/opt/symfony/my-project
. - By default, Symfony runs on all available machine interfaces on port 8000.
Working with Docker
The organization of this application is entirely done using Docker. In this way, we can provide you with ready-made applications faster. In addition, their configuration is more flexible and quite controllable. To be able to control this application, however, you need to know some basic Docker functionalities and features.
Restarting all services
Restarting the database and the Docker container that contains Symfony itself, along with the rest of the software, can be done in two ways:
- By restarting the entire virtual machine
- Restarting the Docker containers, which is the faster option. To do this, access your machine via SSH, and run the following commands:
sudo su -
cd /opt/docker-symfony/
docker compose restart
Recreating Docker containers
Recreation of a docker container may be necessary if you've changed the configuration inside the docker-compose.yml
file. If there are changes, please follow these steps:
cd /opt/docker-symfony/
docker compose stop
docker compose up -d
Checking the status of the Docker application
To check, you need to run the following commands:
sudo su -
docker ps -a
Please pay attention to the STATUS
column. It should show how long the service has been running, for example Up X minutes
. If the status is Restarting
then you need to check what is wrong with the application. In such a case, you can check by following the application logs as follows:
- Get the application name that you can see in the
NAMES
column from the output of thedocker ps -a
command. View the logs with thedocker logs <NAME>
command, whereis the name of the container.