Php: Can we expect alpine images for apache?

[nimabrownlee]

Is there any plans to do it or should we do it ourselves? If so, is there any guidelines for someone that has only been in the docker/server world for a short time. I am trying to create a small production image because the current php-apache is around 500 MB.

[wglambert]

https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/259#issuecomment-232489724

Currently I think it is because the apache part is taken directly from Debian and so it has things that users are used to existing in their php/apache world, which would not necessarily be the case in an alpine version. Also, since the Alpine variants exist mostly for size concerned users, then they would be better served with fpm and something like nginx in front of it.

https://github.com/docker-library/php/issues/259#issuecomment-353680118

Given the complexity involved in duplicating Debian's Apache configuration and usage for Alpine, I don't think this is going to be solved any time soon.

The best advice I can give is to either use the Debian version (since the size difference is not _that_ dramatic, given today's normal storage and bandwidth availability), or to use FPM (which is also much more in the spirit of Alpine's minimalism). Thanks! :heart: