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Docker has its own networking space, trying to connect to the local IP Address of the container won’t work when the database is on the host machine. Normally you would provide the hostname, ip address or use localhost if the database is installed on the same machine locally ie 127.0.0.1. But when the database is …
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The official PHP & Apache container by default doesn’t have mod rewrite enabled. To enable this you would need to create your own Dockerfile, using the build “FROM php:xx” where xx is the container you need. Then add the following line to enable mod rewrite RUN a2enmod rewrite
The Official PHP & Apache[1] container is a great starting point for a local development environment. One thing that might trip you up is if you try to install or run queries against a database. Out of the box, PDO drivers are not enabled. This will likely resort to the following errors: [PDOException] could not find …
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