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docker container: add symlink to /Users/www/[project] in /var/www to access and serve local files

I am trying to serve local CFML files on my mac via the Lucee docker container (https://hub.docker.com/r/lucee/lucee5/). I got so far as to mount the specific folder on my mac to a symlink within my docker images docker run -it imagename -v /Users/[username]/www/projectx:/code /bin/bash So on the bash in the docker image I now have /code. I then create a symlink ln -s /code projectx in my /var/www.

When I then serve the image running tomcat whilst also mounting the the folder

docker run -p 1337:8888 -v /Users/[username]/www/projectx:/code [imagename] catalina.sh run

I would expect to be able to access http://localhost:1337/projectx Unfortunately it can't find that folder. Probably since Lucee doesn't recognises or indexes the the files on run time?

Is this possible?

The outcome I am look at is developing my Coldfusion app on my MAC while running Lucee+mysql on my docker container and having the source code locally so that I don't have to play with samba shares or other ways to be able to edit the coldfusion files in my IDE. (Samba share stopped working when I upgraded to Sierra)

Solution

  • Have you considered simply mounting the code directory onto /var/www, which is the default VOLUME mount point in the Lucee Docker image? If you really want it to be in a /code subdirectory, then have that subdirectory on your host instead of playing with symlinks.

    An easy way to do this is using docker-compose, for example the following docker-compose.yml

    version: '2'

services:
  web:
    image: lucee/lucee5
    ports:
      - "1337:8888"
    volumes:
      - /Users/[username]/www/projectx:/var/www

    You can then run this by using docker-compose up