How to build basic container for Laravel Development ??

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I am usually code in next JS with node for front-end only.

Now I need to learn Laravel + MySQL I can't find any template for it.

Have try to manually install the stuff just like in VM but seems like it doesn't work

Then I try to just run Laravel Sail inside blank codespace and it works but I don't know why it always point to localhost / 0.0.0.0 / 127.0.0.1 even I've already changed it to my codespaces url like xxx-random-80port.preview.app.github.dev so I can not see the app preview or even I can open the preview the assets url still point the default localhost again.

It might be in my laravel configuration, but I always hope for at least a basic XAMPP like template for codespaces.

I've try to use someone's template but it seems not updated.. I don't know what to modify it seems like combining lot of bash scripts with docker which is I don't understand.

Anyways I hope someoen can help me to build this container or tell me if someoen already have it ..

[rkillion]

I am having the same issue! I used a php:0-7.4 image with mariadb, installing node and composer in the build process (Dockerfile) so I could run a Laravel 5.8 app. In the postCreateCommand I create the .env file from a github secret and echo the preview url into it for use like so:

composer install && touch .env && echo $GITHUB_SECRET > .env && echo \"APP_URL=https://${CODESPACE_NAME}.${GITHUB_CODESPACES_PORT_FORWARDING_DOMAIN}\" >> .env && php artisan config:cache && php artisan cache:clear && php artisan migrate && php artisan db:seed && npm install && npm run development

The .env is created with the content all there as expected and I can open the app with php artisan serve --port=8080 but for some reason, the url() helper on the app's login page keeps formatting the requests as 'localhost' even though the APP_URL is set in the .env. I've tried changing the default location in config/app.php, I've tried clearing the caches with php artisan config:cache, php artisan cache:clear, php artisan optimize:clear, etc. I've tried clearing my browser cache, restarting the codespace, rebuilding, full rebuild, creating a new codespace- I even removed every reference to localhost I could find in the app. The url() helper still goes to localhost. Oddly, when I open php artisan tinker and use the url() helper, it formats the url correctly with the base url from the .env. I also manually put the intended url in the browser to make sure it works, and it does- so I know that the .env base url is correct and what I need, I just can't figure out how to get the app to use it. As you mentioned, this may be a laravel build issue unrelated to codespaces, but if anyone has any insight I would greatly appreciate it! Perhaps there is something about port forwarding or order of operations in the build that I'm not aware of.

[rkillion]

OK, I was able to solve this with URL::forceRootUrl(\config('app.url')); as seen on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54032810/url-generator-putting-localhost-before-domain-in-laravel.

Also, one more fix if you end up using the .env hack above: I forgot to add the port to the url, so the command should be echo "APP_URL=https://${CODESPACE_NAME}-8080.${GITHUB_CODESPACES_PORT_FORWARDING_DOMAIN}"

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