I am trying to create a podman compose of NGINX and PHP:FPM. I was able to get NGINX to work on its own using the docker.io./bitnami/nginx image. I gotten close I believe to getting the PHP:FPM to work also but due to an issue with NGINX not cooperating with the PHP:FPM.

In the logs of the NGINX container, I get this error every time I load localhost:8080 in the browser…

10.89.4.2 - - [24/Jul/2024:20:18:35 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 47 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0" "-"
2024/07/24 20:18:35 [error] 44#44: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 10.89.4.2, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://10.89.4.3:9000", host: "localhost:8080"

And when I load localhost:8080 in the browser, it displays a blank page which says “File not found.”.

I am using podman 5.1.2 on Linux Mint 21.3. My goal is to simply NGINX and PHP to work, to be able to have a web server that can use PHP.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

Directory structure

nginx-php/
   compose.yml
   nginx.conf
   php.dockerfile
   php.ini
   www/
      public/

compose.yml

version: '3'
networks:
    app-tier:
        driver: bridge
services:
    nginx:
        image: docker.io/bitnami/nginx
        volumes:
            - ./nginx.conf:/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/server_blocks/my_server_block.conf:ro
            - .:/app/
        networks:
            - app-tier
        ports:
            - 8080:8080
    php:
        build:
            context: .
            dockerfile: php.dockerfile
        volumes:
            - .:/app/
        networks:
            - app-tier

nginx.conf

server {
    server_name localhost;
    listen 0.0.0.0:8080;
    
    root /app/www/public;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    autoindex on;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/index.php;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass php:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi.conf;
    }
}

php.dockerfile (Will like to get debugging and databases to work later on…)

FROM docker.io/bitnami/php-fpm

# Install xdebug for nicer error messages and debugging
# RUN pecl install xdebug
# RUN docker-php-ext-enable xdebug

# Install mysqli
# RUN docker-php-ext-install mysqli
# RUN docker-php-ext-enable mysqli

# Install PDO
# RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql

php.ini (Will like to get debugging and databases to work later on…)

[PHP]

extension=mysqli
extension=pdo_mysql


; xdebug settings for debugging
zend_extension=xdebug
xdebug.start_with_request = yes
xdebug.client_host=xdebug://gateway