Running GRAV CMS in an appserver.io Docker container

Running GRAV CMS on our appserver.io Docker container provides some advantages because some of the requirements that usually needs manual tweaks will be already set-up for you, like

  • URL rewriting
  • SSL support

So installing GRAV CMS in an appserver.io Docker container needs basically three steps.

BTW: appserver.io website and documentation page run's on GRAV CMS. THANKS GRAV CMS team!!!

Step 1: Docker Installation

Download and install Docker for your system.

If you already have a running Docker installation, you can skip this step and proceed with Step 2.

Step 2: Starting a appserver.io Docker container

If you already have a webserver running that listens either to one of the ports 80 and 443 you'll also have to stop it temporarly.

We need a appserver.io container that runs the GRAV CMS instance. Again, open your commandline, if you've already closed it, and execute the following command

MacBook-Pro:~ docker run -d \
  -p127.0.0.1:80:80 \
  -p127.0.0.1:443:443 \
  -v /Users/wagnert/Workspace:/root/Workspace \
  --name appserver-1.1.4-magento \
  appserver/dist:1.1.4

This downlaods the latest stable appserver.io image and starts a container with the webserver and PHP-FPM listening to the ports 127.0.0.1:80 and 127.0.0.1:443.

Step 3: Download and deploy GRAV CMS as PHAR archive

Beside the possiblity to copy the files to the webserver root directory, appserver.io also supports a PHAR based deployment. This allows us to deploy GRAV CMS by downloading the sources - including all composer dependencies - as a PHAR archive and copy it to the deployment directory inside the Docker container. To do this, execute the following lines on the commandline

MacBook-Pro:~ docker exec appserver-1.1.4-grav bash -c \
  "wget http://apps.appserver.io/grav/grav-latest.phar \
   -O /opt/appserver/deploy/grav-latest.phar"
MacBook-Pro:~ docker exec appserver-1.1.4-grav bash -c \
  "touch /opt/appserver/deploy/grav-latest.phar.dodeploy"

Now wait until appserver.io has deployed the GRAV CMS sources. To check if everything is ready, execute the following command several times and check the output

MacBook-Pro:~ wagnert$ docker exec appserver-1.1.4-grav bash -c "ls -l /opt/appserver/deploy"
total 195588
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      4384 Jun  9 07:21 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 200269499 Jun  9  0017 grav-latest.phar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root        44 Jun 10 15:23 grav-latest.phar.deployed

When the file grav-latest.phar.deploying changed to grav-latest.phar.deployed GRAV CMS has successfully been deployed.

The GRAV CMS deployment process could take up to 1 minute, depending on your hardware!

Finally, user your browser to open the GRAV CMS frontend or backend and create the admin user.

That's it - have fun!

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