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Slightly reorganize PHP documentation
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tianon committed May 8, 2018
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$ docker run -d -p 80:80 --name my-apache-php-app -v "$PWD":/var/www/html %%IMAGE%%:7.0-apache
```

### How to install more PHP extensions
### Changing `DocumentRoot`

Some applications may wish to change the default `DocumentRoot` in Apache (away from `/var/www/html`). The following demonstrates one way to do so using an environment variable (which can then be modified at container runtime as well):

```dockerfile
FROM %%IMAGE%%:7.1-apache

ENV APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT /path/to/new/root

RUN sed -ri -e 's!/var/www/html!${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}!g' /etc/apache2/sites-available/*.conf
RUN sed -ri -e 's!/var/www/!${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}!g' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/*.conf
```

## How to install more PHP extensions

We provide the helper scripts `docker-php-ext-configure`, `docker-php-ext-install`, and `docker-php-ext-enable` to more easily install PHP extensions.

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&& docker-php-source delete
```

#### PHP Core Extensions
### PHP Core Extensions

For example, if you want to have a PHP-FPM image with `iconv`, `mcrypt` and `gd` extensions, you can inherit the base image that you like, and write your own `Dockerfile` like this:

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See ["Dockerizing Compiled Software"](https://tianon.xyz/post/2017/12/26/dockerize-compiled-software.html) for a description of the technique Tianon uses for determining the necessary build-time dependencies for any bit of software (which applies directly to compiling PHP extensions).

#### PECL extensions
### PECL extensions

Some extensions are not provided with the PHP source, but are instead available through [PECL](https://pecl.php.net/). To install a PECL extension, use `pecl install` to download and compile it, then use `docker-php-ext-enable` to enable it:

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Beyond the compatibility issue, it's also a good practice to ensure you know when your dependencies receive updates and can control those updates directly.

#### Other extensions
### Other extensions

Some extensions are not provided via either Core or PECL; these can be installed too, although the process is less automated:

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&& rm -r /tmp/xcache
```

#### "`E: Package 'php-XXX' has no installation candidate`"
## "`E: Package 'php-XXX' has no installation candidate`"

As of [docker-library/php#542](https://github.com/docker-library/php/pull/542), this image blocks the installation of Debian's PHP packages. There is some additional discussion of this change in [docker-library/php#551 (comment)](https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/551#issuecomment-354849074), but the gist is that installing Debian's PHP packages in this image leads to two conflicting installations of PHP in a single image, which is almost certainly not the intended outcome.

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```

The *proper* solution to this error is to either use `FROM debian:XXX` and install Debian's PHP packages directly, or to use `docker-php-ext-install`, `pecl`, and/or `phpize` to install the necessary additional extensions and utilities.

### Changing `DocumentRoot`

Some applications may wish to change the default `DocumentRoot` in Apache (away from `/var/www/html`). The following demonstrates one way to do so using an environment variable (which can then be modified at container runtime as well):

```dockerfile
FROM %%IMAGE%%:7.1-apache

ENV APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT /path/to/new/root

RUN sed -ri -e 's!/var/www/html!${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}!g' /etc/apache2/sites-available/*.conf
RUN sed -ri -e 's!/var/www/!${APACHE_DOCUMENT_ROOT}!g' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/conf-available/*.conf
```

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