Run an apache webserver with php using docker

This is actually very easy, just run below command to start it

docker run -d -p 8000:80 --mount type=bind,source"$(pwd):/htdocs",target=/var/www/html php:apache

The options are:

-d : run this container in a detached mode (in the background)

--mount : mount a folder in current directory called htdocs (will be created by docker) into /var/www/html in the container

-p 8000:80 : will map port 8000 in localhost to port 80 in the container

Once started, create a simple php script inside the htdocs directory

cd htdocs

cat >> index.php<<EOF
<?php

echo "This is my php script";

?>

EOF

And browse using a normal web browser to http://localhost:8000. You should see "This is my php script" shown in your web browser