Nginx + PHP-FPM

Nginx with PHP-FPM, composer and the PHP extensions from ports, for running your own PHP sites.

Port	80
Registry	ghcr.io/daemonless/nginx-php-fpm
Source	https://github.com/php/php-src
Website	https://www.php.net/

Version Tags

Tag	Description	Best For
85 / 85-pkg / latest / pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Most users — recommended.
85-pkg-latest / pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Staying current.
86 / 86-pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Production stability.
86-pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Staying current.
84 / 84-pkg	FreeBSD Quarterly. Uses stable, tested packages.	Production stability.
84-pkg-latest	FreeBSD Latest. Rolling package updates.	Staying current.

Prerequisites

Before deploying, ensure your host environment is ready. See the Quick Start Guide for host setup instructions.

Deployment

Podman Compose

services:
  nginx-php-fpm:
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/nginx-php-fpm:latest"
    container_name: nginx-php-fpm
    environment:
      - PUID=1000  # User ID for php-fpm workers and nginx workers
      - PGID=1000  # Group ID for php-fpm workers and nginx workers
      - TZ=UTC  # Timezone, also used as PHP's date.timezone
      # - PHP_EXTENSIONS=  # Space-separated list of PHP extensions to enable; replaces the default set
      # - PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA=  # Extensions to enable in addition to PHP_EXTENSIONS
    volumes:
      - "/containers/nginx-php-fpm:/config"
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    # always (not unless-stopped) so FreeBSD's podman rc.d auto-starts it at boot
    restart: always

Save as compose.yaml, then run podman-compose up -d.

AppJail Director

.env:

# .env

DIRECTOR_PROJECT=nginx-php-fpm
PUID=1000
PGID=1000
TZ=UTC

appjail-director.yml:

# appjail-director.yml

options:
  - virtualnet: ':<random> default'
  - nat:
services:
  nginx-php-fpm:
    name: nginx_php_fpm
    options:
      - container: 'args:--pull'
      - expose: '80:80 proto:tcp'
    oci:
      user: root
      environment:
        - PUID: !ENV '${PUID}'
        - PGID: !ENV '${PGID}'
        - TZ: !ENV '${TZ}'
    volumes:
      - nginx-php-fpm: /config
volumes:
  nginx-php-fpm:
    device: '/containers/nginx-php-fpm'

Makejail:

# Makejail

ARG tag=latest

OPTION container=boot
OPTION overwrite=force
OPTION from=ghcr.io/daemonless/nginx-php-fpm:${tag}

Save the files above, then run appjail-director up.

Warning

Exposing ports in AppJail means that your service can be reached from remote hosts. If that is not your intention, do not expose the ports and communicate with the service using the jail's IPv4 address or hostname assigned by the virtual network.

To avoid exposing ports, just remove the expose option in your appjail-director.yml or from your command-line arguments.

Bastille

Warning

Bastille's OCI support is experimental. It requires buildah and shares the host network stack (inherit). Mount volumes with --volume HOST JAIL; without it, image-declared volumes are stored under ${bastille_volumesdir}/${jail}.

services:
  nginx-php-fpm:
    name: nginx-php-fpm
    image: "ghcr.io/daemonless/nginx-php-fpm:latest"
    network:
      - mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=UTC
    volumes:
      - "/containers/nginx-php-fpm:/config"

Save as bastille-compose.yml, then run bastille up. Open http://<server>:80 from another machine (the server's own browser can't use a published port).

Parameters

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
PUID	1000	User ID for php-fpm workers and nginx workers
PGID	1000	Group ID for php-fpm workers and nginx workers
TZ	UTC	Timezone, also used as PHP's date.timezone
PHP_EXTENSIONS	``	Space-separated list of PHP extensions to enable; replaces the default set
PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA	``	Extensions to enable in addition to PHP_EXTENSIONS

Volumes

Path	Description
/config	Web root (/config/www), nginx and PHP configuration

Ports

Port	Protocol	Description
80	TCP	Web

Your site

Put your PHP code in /config/www. On first start, when that directory is empty, a welcome page is placed there showing the PHP version and the loaded extensions. /config/nginx/site-confs/default.conf serves it; add more files there for more sites. /config/nginx/nginx.conf and /config/php/www.conf hold the nginx main config and the php-fpm pool. All of these are copied in on first run and never overwritten afterwards.

PHP settings

/config/php/php-local.ini is loaded after php.ini and holds the memory, upload and opcache settings. Edit it and restart the container.

Extensions

The image ships every PHP extension in the FreeBSD ports tree except imagick, smbclient and enchant, whose dependencies would quadruple the image. By default these are enabled:

apcu bcmath bz2 ctype curl dom exif fileinfo filter gd iconv intl mbstring mysqli opcache pdo pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql pdo_sqlite pgsql phar posix session simplexml tokenizer xml xmlreader xmlwriter zip zlib

Set PHP_EXTENSIONS to replace that list, or PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA to add to it, for example PHP_EXTENSIONS_EXTRA=redis soap ldap. Extensions not in the image are reported in the container log at start. json and openssl are built into PHP and always available.

Composer

Composer is installed. Run it as the bsd user so the files it writes stay owned by your PUID:

podman exec -u bsd nginx-php-fpm composer install -d /config/www

PHP versions

Tags 86, 85 and 84 pick the PHP version; latest is PHP 8.5. Each has a -pkg-latest variant built from the FreeBSD latest package branch. Newer PHP versions ship fewer extensions until the pecl ports catch up; the welcome page lists what is loaded.

Architectures: amd64 User: bsd (UID/GID via PUID/PGID, defaults to 1000:1000) Base: FreeBSD 15.1

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