Laravel on OxPHP

Laravel is the canonical framework-mode application: a single front controller at public/index.php, with static assets served straight from public/. OxPHP's framework routing mode maps onto this exactly. Existing files are served from disk; everything else is dispatched to index.php.

Stack at a glance

  • OxPHP image: ghcr.io/oxphp/oxphp:0.10.0 (PHP 8.5)
  • Routing mode: Framework (ENTRY_FILE=index.php; DOCUMENT_ROOT left at the default /var/www/html/public)
  • Extensions added: pdo_mysql, intl
  • Services: OxPHP + MySQL
  • URL: http://localhost:8091 · internal http://localhost:9092/health

Project layout

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laravel-oxphp/ ├── docker-compose.yml └── src/ # composer create-project laravel/laravel src ├── Dockerfile └── … # the Laravel application

Generate the app first:

bash
mkdir -p laravel-oxphp/src docker run --rm -v "$PWD/laravel-oxphp/src":/app -w /app \ composer:2 create-project laravel/laravel . --prefer-dist

Then point src/.env at the database service:

src/.env
APP_URL=http://localhost:8091 DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=db DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=laravel DB_USERNAME=laravel DB_PASSWORD=laravel

Dockerfile and Compose

src/Dockerfile copies OxPHP into a php:8.5-zts-alpine base that carries Laravel's runtime extensions.

src/Dockerfile
ARG OXPHP_VERSION=0.10.0 ARG PHP_VERSION=8.5 ARG ALPINE_VERSION=3.23 # ── PHP base: Laravel runtime extensions ────────────────────── FROM php:${PHP_VERSION}-zts-alpine${ALPINE_VERSION} AS php-base RUN apk add --no-cache icu-libs \ && apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps icu-dev \ && docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql intl \ && apk del .build-deps # ── Composer ────────────────────────────────────────────────── FROM composer:2 AS composer # ── OxPHP artifacts ─────────────────────────────────────────── FROM ghcr.io/oxphp/oxphp:${OXPHP_VERSION} AS oxphp # ── dev: OxPHP server + PHP CLI + Composer ──────────────────── FROM php-base AS dev RUN apk add --no-cache libgcc COPY --from=composer /usr/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer COPY --from=oxphp /usr/local/bin/oxphp /usr/local/bin/oxphp COPY --from=oxphp /usr/local/lib/liboxphp_bridge.so /usr/local/lib/ COPY --from=oxphp /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/ /tmp/oxphp-ext/ RUN cp /tmp/oxphp-ext/*/oxphp_sapi.so "$(php -r 'echo ini_get("extension_dir");')/" \ && rm -rf /tmp/oxphp-ext \ && echo "extension=oxphp_sapi.so" > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/oxphp-ext.ini RUN { \ echo "[opcache]"; echo "opcache.enable=1"; echo "opcache.enable_cli=1"; \ echo "opcache.validate_timestamps=1"; echo "opcache.revalidate_freq=0"; \ } > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/opcache-dev.ini RUN getent passwd www-data >/dev/null \ || adduser -D -H -u 82 -G www-data -s /sbin/nologin www-data RUN mkdir -p /var/www/html/public && chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib WORKDIR /var/www/html COPY --chown=www-data:www-data . /var/www/html EXPOSE 80 9090 CMD ["oxphp"]

Install and first run

The dev image carries the PHP CLI and Composer, so artisan runs in the same container:

bash
docker compose up -d --build docker compose exec app php artisan key:generate docker compose exec app php artisan migrate

OxPHP notes

Note
  • ENTRY_FILE=index.php selects framework mode. Laravel's public/ becomes DOCUMENT_ROOT; the framework's own .env, app/, vendor/ stay outside the document root and are never reachable over HTTP.
  • Container environment overrides .env. OxPHP passes the container environment to PHP, and Laravel's dotenv loader does not override real environment variables — so DB_HOST, APP_ENV, etc. set in Compose win.
  • OPcache revalidates per request in the dev target, so edits on the bind-mounted src/ take effect immediately. For production, set opcache.validate_timestamps=0 and drop the bind mount.

Verify

bash
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:8091/ # 200 curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:8091/up # 200 (health route) curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" http://localhost:9092/health # 200

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