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I am in the process of Dockerising my webserver/php workflow.

But because I am on Windows, I need to use a virtual machine. I chose boot2docker which is a Tiny Core Linux running in Virtualbox and adapted for Docker.

I selected three containers:

In boot2docker, /www/ contains my web projects and conf/, which has the following tree:

conf │ ├───fig │ fig.yml │ └───nginx nginx.conf servers-global.conf servers.conf

Because docker-compose is not available for boot2docker, I must use fig to automate everything. Here is my fig.xml:

mysql: image: mysql environment: - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root ports: - 3306:3306 php: image: jprjr/php-fpm links: - mysql:mysql volumes: - /www:/srv/http:ro ports: - 9000:9000 nginx: image: nginx links: - php:php volumes: - /www:/www:ro ports: - 80:80 command: nginx -c /www/conf/nginx/nginx.conf

Here is my nginx.conf:

daemon off; user nginx; worker_processes 1; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log debug; pid /var/run/nginx.pid; events { worker_connections 1024; } http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"'; access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main; sendfile off; keepalive_timeout 65; index index.php index.html index.htm; include /www/conf/nginx/servers.conf; autoindex on; }

And the servers.conf:

server { server_name lab.dev; root /www/lab/; include /www/conf/nginx/servers-global.conf; } # Some other servers (vhosts)

And the servers-global.conf:

listen 80; location ~* \.php$ { fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_pass php:9000; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http$fastcgi_script_name; }

So the problem now (sorry for all that configuration, I believe it was needed to clearly explain the problem): If I access lab.dev, no problem (which shows that the host is created in Windows) but if I try to access lab.dev/test_autoload/, I have a File not found.. I know this comes from php-fpm not being able to access the files, and the nginx logs confirm this:

nginx_1 | 2015/05/28 14:56:02 [error] 5#5: *3 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.59.3, server: lab.dev, request: "GET /test_autoload/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://172.17.0.120:9000", host: "lab.dev", referrer: "http://lab.dev/"

I know that there is a index.php in lab/test_autoload/ in both containers, I have checked. In nginx, it is located in /www/lab/test_autoload/index.php and /srv/http/lab/test_autoload/index.php in php.

I believe the problem comes from root and/or fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME, but I do not know how to solve it.

I have tried many things, such as modifying the roots, using a rewrite rule, adding/removing some /s, etc, but nothing has made it change.

Again, sorry for all this config, but I think it was needed to describe the environment I am in.

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  • I'm not sure where you got that docker-compose does not work with boot2docker. It does just fine. Commented May 28, 2015 at 15:31
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    Here and there, sadly. Commented May 28, 2015 at 15:36
  • Oh I see, you're trying to install it in boot2docker directly. You could always run docker-compose inside a new container, I'm sure that would work. Commented May 28, 2015 at 16:04

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I finally found the answer.

The variable $fastcgi_script_name did not take into account the root (logical, as it would have included www/ otherwise. This means that a global file can not work. An example :

# "generated" vhost server { server_name lab.dev; root /www/lab/; listen 80; location ~* \.php$ { fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_pass php:9000; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http$fastcgi_script_name; # I need to add /lab after /srv/http because it requests PHP to look at the root of the web files, not in the lab/ folder # fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http/lab$fastcgi_script_name; } }

This meant that I couldn't write the lab/ at only one place, I needed to write at two different places (root and fastcgi_param) so I decided to write myself a small PHP script that used a .json and turned it into the servers.conf file. If anyone wants to have a look at it, just ask, it will be a pleasure to share it.

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Asking for sharing the file.
I'm sorry, I did a reinstall and I don't use PHP anymore (nor Docker). :|
So you don't have the servers.conf file any more?
No, sorry. It was just, as shown in the question, a list of virtual hosts, all looking similar to the one shown. And for the script, it just took the data from the JSON (would recommand YAML now) and filled in a template.
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There's a mistake here:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http/$fastcgi_script_name;

The good line is:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/http$fastcgi_script_name;

This is not the same thing.

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My bad. This is one of the many tests I did, even with /srv/http$fastcgi_script_name, it doesn't work. I'll edit the OP.
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Your nginx.conf is fully empty, where is the daemon off; the user nginx line, worker_processes etc.. nginx need some configuration file before running the http.

In the http conf, same thing, is missing the mime types, the default_type, configuration of logs sendfile at on for boot2docker.

Your problem is clearly not a problem with Docker, but with the nginx configuration. Have you test your application with running docker run before using fig ? Did it worked ?

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I have edited the OP to show my entire nginx. As I said, I can access lab.dev (I see the list of folders, because of autoindex on), which shows that my configuration is fonctionnal, apart for when I want to access a folder's index.php by calling the folder.

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