Docker Container from php:5.6-apache as root - apache

Question

This would be related to Docker php:5.6-Apache Development Environment missing permissions on volume mount
I have tried pretty much everything to make the mounted volume be readable by www-data, my current solution is trying to move by scripts the folders needed by the application to /var and giving the proper permissions to be writable by www-data but that is becoming hard to maintain.
Giving the fact that it's a development environment I don't mind being a security hole so I would like to run apache as root and I get
Error: Apache has not been designed to serve pages while running as
root. There are known race conditions that will allow any local user
to read any file on the system. If you still desire to serve pages as
root then add -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE to the CFLAGS line in your
src/Configuration file and rebuild the server. It is strongly
suggested that you instead modify the User directive in your
httpd.conf file to list a non-root user.
Is there any easy way I can accomplish this using the docker image php:5.6-apache?
This is my docker-compose.yml
version: '2'
services:
api:
container_name: api
privileged: true
build:
context: .
dockerfile: apigility/Dockerfile
ports:
- "2020:80"
volumes:
- /ft/code/api:/var/www:rw
And this is my Dockerfile:
FROM php:5.6-apache
USER root
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y sudo openjdk-7-jdk \
&& echo "www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
RUN apt-get install -y git zlib1g-dev libmcrypt-dev nano vim --no-install-recommends \
&& apt-get clean \
&& rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
&& docker-php-ext-install mcrypt zip \
&& curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer \
| php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer \
&& a2enmod rewrite \
&& sed -i 's!/var/www/html!/var/www/public!g' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf \
&& echo "AllowEncodedSlashes On" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf \
&& cp /usr/src/php/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini \
&& printf '[Date]\ndate.timezone=UTC' > /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/timezone.ini
WORKDIR /var/www

Answer 1

Why not to do exactly what it says in the question you referred to?
RUN usermod -u 1000 www-data
RUN groupmod -g 1000 www-data
This is not a hack. It's a proper solution to the problem you have in the development environment.

Answer 2

So, I managed to make the mounted data available for www-data by using the part of the answer in the related post but another step is required for it to work.
After you run docker-machine start default you need to ssh into it and run the following:
sudo mkdir --parents /code [where /code is the shared folder in virtualbox]
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=999,gid=999 code /code [this is to make sure the uid and gid is 999 for the next part to work]
Then in your Dockerfile add
RUN usermod -u 999 www-data \
&& groupmod -g 999 www-data
After it's mounted, /code will have the owner www-data, and problem solved!

Answer 3

Another and better solution.
Add this in your dockerfile
RUN cd ~ \
&& apt-get -y install dpkg-dev debhelper libaprutil1-dev libapr1-dev libpcre3-dev liblua5.1-0-dev autotools-dev \
&& apt-get source apache2.2-common \
&& cd apache2-2.4.10 \
&& export DEB_CFLAGS_SET="-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -DBIG_SECURITY_HOLE" \
&& dpkg-buildpackage -b \
&& cd .. \
&& dpkg -i apache2-bin_2.4.10-10+deb8u7_amd64.deb \
&& dpkg -i apache2.2-common_2.4.10-10+deb8u7_amd64.deb
After that, you could be able to run apache as root.
PS : apache2-2.4.10, apache2-bin_2.4.10-10+deb8u7_amd64.deb and apache2.2-common_2.4.10-10+deb8u7_amd64.deb could change according to your source