quick and dirty docker setup..

cmds

# build the base image
$ docker build -t REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME .
# load up the docker images and run them in the background with -d
$ docker-compose up -d
# load up a shell to the main app
$ docker exec -it REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME_app_1 bash
# load up a shell to the phpmyadmin container
$ docker exec -it REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME_phpmyadmin_1 bash
# shut down the containers
$ docker-compose down

# main app http://localhost:8080
# phpmyadmin http://localhost:8081
# mailcatcher http://localhost:1080

docker-compose.yml

---
version: '2'
services:
  app:
    hostname: REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_DOMAIN
    image: REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_DOMAIN:latest
    build: .
    volumes:
      - .:/var/www/html
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    tty: true
    links:
      - mysql

  mysql:
    image: mysql:5.6
    hostname: mysql
    environment:
      MYSQL_USER: root
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: k3y2!21
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: k3y2!21
    volumes:
      - /var/lib/mysql
    ports:
      - 3306:3306

  phpmyadmin:
    image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin:4.6
    container_name: phpmyadmin
    environment:
      PMA_HOST: mysql
      PMA_PORT: 3306
      PMA_USER: root
      PMA_PASSWORD: k3y2!21
    restart: always
    links:
      - mysql
    ports:
      - 8081:80

  schickling-mailcatcher:
    image: schickling/mailcatcher
    ports:
      - 1080:1080

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu:16.04

RUN apt-get update && \
  apt-get -y upgrade && \
  apt-get install -y build-essential && \
  apt-get install -y software-properties-common && \
  apt-get install -y vim curl git man unzip wget && \
  apt-get install -y net-tools iputils-ping apache2 apache2-utils

RUN apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep php| awk '{print $2}' |tr "\n" " "` & \
  LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php && \
  apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y php5.6 php5.6-gettext php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mysql php5.6-xml && \
  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /var/tmp/* /tmp/*

WORKDIR /var/www/html
COPY . /var/www/html

EXPOSE 80

ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]