Consider adding nginx support about docker-phpfarm

[richardtape]

I see what you're saying, however, I have to disagree with

In addition many projects depend on mod_rewrite or .htaccess files so Apache is a very common denominator.

Many, many new setups are using nginx as the webserver (and many more use it as a (reverse) proxy). Having that as an option here could only be beneficial.

Compiling newer versions of nginx on deb wheezy is doable. Tricky, but doable.

And, as you say, the web server isn't doing much other than passing requests to php-fcgi so being able to test a basic setup with different web servers would be beneficial.

If you don't want to support it, that's fine, and completely understandable, I'm just not sure I agree with the reasons you gave (and that's probably more to be me misunderstanding them than anything else).

[splitbrain]

To be honest I don't see any advantage of nginx over apache in this project. Especially since the base system is quite old, so you would get an old nginx anyway. The webserver isn't doing much here anyway except passing requests to php-fcgi. In addition many projects depend on mod_rewrite or .htaccess files so Apache is a very common denominator.

What do you think would nginx improve?

[splitbrain]

Again, you didn't provide any advantage of having nginx. Many people use it. true. Many people use apache. Many projects work out of the box with apache (wordpress, dokuwiki, ...). They need special config for nginx (because missing .htaccess and mod_rewrite).

Goal of this project is providing a quick way to test things in different php versions. If you can provide a use case of how adding nginx would help with that goal I'm happy to consider a pull request.

[richardtape]

I guess I was hoping to make this more of a generic testing tool. Perhaps that's not the best way forward. Thanks for taking the time to reply. Closing.

[splitbrain]

that's the beauty of docker. each image does one thing well. you could always use a reverse proxy nginx in front of this image...