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-## Compose sample application
-### PHP server with an Nginx proxy and a MySQL database
-
-Project structure:
-```
-.
-├── backend
-│   ├── Dockerfile
-├── db
-│   └── password.txt
-├── docker-compose.yaml
-├── proxy
-│   ├── conf
-│   └── Dockerfile
-├── src
-│   ├── index.php
-└── README.md
-```
-
-[_docker-compose.yaml_](docker-compose.yaml)
-```
-services:
-  backend:
-    build: backend
-    ...
-  db:
-    image: mysql:8.0.19
-    ...
-  proxy:
-    build: proxy
-    ports:
-    - 80:80
-    ...
-```
-The compose file defines an application with three services `proxy`, `backend` and `db`.
-When deploying the application, docker-compose maps port 80 of the proxy service container to port 80 of the host as specified in the file.
-Make sure port 80 on the host is not already in use.
-
-## Deploy with docker-compose
-
-```
-$ docker-compose up -d
-Creating nginx-php-mysql_db_1 ... done
-Creating nginx-php-mysql_backend_1 ... done
-Creating nginx-php-mysql_proxy_1   ... done
-```
-
-## Expected result
-
-Listing containers must show three containers running and the port mapping as below:
-```
-$ docker ps
-CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                     COMMAND                  CREATED          STATUS          PORTS                 NAMES
-2244050972fc   nginx-php-mysql_proxy     "/docker-entrypoint.…"   51 seconds ago   Up 49 seconds   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp    nginx-php-mysql_proxy_1
-75353040cb38   nginx-php-mysql_backend   "docker-php-entrypoi…"   51 seconds ago   Up 50 seconds   9000/tcp              nginx-php-mysql_backend_1
-e54bd7e0c790   mysql:8.0.19              "docker-entrypoint.s…"   52 seconds ago   Up 50 seconds   3306/tcp, 33060/tcp   nginx-php-mysql_db_1
-```
-
-After the application starts, navigate to `http://localhost:80` in your web browser or run:
-```
-$ curl localhost:80
-<h1>hello world in php!</h1>
-```
-
-Stop and remove the containers
-```
-$ docker-compose down
-```
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-FROM php:8.0.3-fpm-buster
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-db-q5n2g
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-version: "3.8"
-services:
-  backend:
-    build: backend
-    secrets:
-      - db-password
-    depends_on: 
-      - db
-    volumes:
-      - ./src:/var/www/html # this part seems repetitive (jb)
-  db:
-    image: mysql:8.0.19
-    command: '--default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password'
-    restart: always
-    secrets:
-      - db-password
-    volumes:
-      - db-data:/var/lib/mysql
-    environment:
-      - MYSQL_DATABASE=example
-      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE=/run/secrets/db-password
-  proxy:
-    build: proxy
-    ports:
-      - 80:80
-    depends_on: 
-      - backend
-    volumes:
-      - ./src:/var/www/html # this part seems repetitive (jb)
-volumes:
-  db-data:
-secrets:
-  db-password:
-    file: db/password.txt
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-FROM nginx:1.19.8-alpine
-COPY conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
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diff --git a/nginx-php-mysql/proxy/conf b/nginx-php-mysql/proxy/conf
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-server {
-  location ~ /.well-known {
-    allow all;
-  }
-
-  location ~ /\.ht {
-    deny all;
-  }
-
-  root /var/www/html;
-
-  index index.php index.html;
-
-  location / {
-    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
-  }
-
-  location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
-    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
-    if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
-      return 404;
-    }
-
-    include fastcgi_params;
-    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
-    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO       $fastcgi_path_info;
-    fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
-
-    fastcgi_pass   backend:9000;
-    fastcgi_index  index.php;
-  }
-}
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-<?php
-    echo '<h1>hello world in php!</h1>';
-?>
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