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Let’s begin.

Introduction

Dawn of Man is a survival and city-builder that takes place during the Stone Age that is being developed by Madruga Works .

Players take control of a settlement of the first modern humans, to guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. The game starts during the Stone Age, and takes builds up to the Iron Age, spanning more than 10,000 years of human prehistory. Players will need to get their people to survive, expand and evolve, just like our ancestors, face challenges that nature will throw at them. Wikipedia

Sometimes I need to spin a Docker container really quick so I can test stuff locally and the quickest way (for me) is to keep a project template somewhere on the disk so I can quickly copy it, add the web app and test it. Ofc there are other alternatives. Ofc some are better. Ofc some are faster. But this one is mine.

The container will be configured with:

• latest Apache web server with SSL and mod_rewrite.
• PHP 7.4 with bz2, iconv, intl, gettext, mbstring, mysqli, pdo_mysql, soap, zip, gd, exif.
• MySQL database server version 8.0

The directory structure of the project template is the one below:

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├── Dockerfile
├── certs
├── config
│   └── default-ssl.conf
├── db
├── docker-compose.yml
└── www
	└── index.html