Test server: code in a Docker volume instead of a C:\ bind mount

With Docker Desktop on Windows the bind-mounted C:\hotel made every page
take ~5-7 s; with the code on the Linux filesystem it takes ~0.1 s.

- docker/Dockerfile.server bakes the repo into the image (.dockerignore
  keeps .env, settings.inc.php and caches out)
- docker/server-entrypoint.sh copies the code into the app_code volume on
  start: pass 1 updates code but skips runtime folders (uploads, generated
  images, caches, downloaded translations, settings.inc.php), pass 2 adds
  missing files without overwriting
- docker/php-server.ini: OPcache without timestamp checks, larger
  realpath cache
- setup script waits for the container and checks the install marker
  inside the volume; .gitattributes keeps *.sh LF on Windows checkouts
- TESTSERVER.md: speed section and one-time switch from the first version

Tested with a fresh stack: full install + demo + hardening, re-run keeps
DB/uploads, rebuilt image delivers code changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.dockerignore

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Build context for docker/Dockerfile.server (repo root).
+# Runtime data and secrets stay out of the image.
+.git
+.env
+.htaccess
+config/settings.inc.php
+cache/smarty/compile/*
+cache/smarty/cache/*
+cache/class_index.php

.gitattributes

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Shell scripts run inside Linux containers: always LF
+*.sh text eol=lf

docker-compose.server.yml

@@ -3,14 +3,26 @@
 # the app only listens on APP_BIND (default: all interfaces, port 8080).
 #   docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.server.yml up -d --build
 # See docker/TESTSERVER.md and docker/nginx-qloapps.conf.
+#
+# Speed: the code is baked into the image and copied into the volume "app_code"
+# (Linux filesystem) on every start. A bind mount from C:\ makes every page ~40x slower.
+# After "git pull": run the setup script again (rebuilds the image and restarts).
 
 services:
   app:
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: docker/Dockerfile.server
     ports: !override
       - "${APP_BIND:-0.0.0.0:8080}:80"
+    volumes: !override
+      - app_code:/var/www/html
     environment:
       QLO_SSL: ${QLO_SSL:-1}
     restart: unless-stopped
 
   db:
     restart: unless-stopped
+
+volumes:
+  app_code:

docker/Dockerfile.server

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Server image: same PHP/Apache as docker/Dockerfile, plus the shop code baked in.
+# On start, server-entrypoint.sh copies the code into the volume at /var/www/html
+# (Linux filesystem). Docker Desktop bind mounts from C:\ are ~40x slower for PHP.
+FROM php:8.3-apache
+
+RUN apt-get update \
+    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+        libfreetype6-dev libjpeg62-turbo-dev libpng-dev libwebp-dev \
+        libzip-dev libxml2-dev libicu-dev unzip rsync \
+    && docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype --with-jpeg --with-webp \
+    && docker-php-ext-install -j"$(nproc)" pdo_mysql mysqli gd zip soap intl opcache \
+    && a2enmod rewrite headers \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+COPY docker/php.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/qloapps.ini
+COPY docker/php-server.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/zz-server.ini
+COPY docker/apache-hardening.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/zz-hardening.conf
+RUN sed -ri 's!AllowOverride None!AllowOverride All!g' /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
+
+COPY . /opt/qloapps-src
+COPY docker/server-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin/server-entrypoint.sh
+# Windows checkouts may carry CRLF line endings
+RUN sed -i 's/\r$//' /usr/local/bin/server-entrypoint.sh && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/server-entrypoint.sh
+
+WORKDIR /var/www/html
+ENTRYPOINT ["server-entrypoint.sh"]
+CMD ["apache2-foreground"]

docker/TESTSERVER.md

@@ -70,6 +70,22 @@ nginx -t && systemctl reload nginx
 
 Wichtig ist `proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;` – daran erkennt QloApps HTTPS. Ohne die Zeile gibt es Umleitungsschleifen.
 
+## Geschwindigkeit
+
+Der Code wird ins Image gebaut und beim Start in das Docker-Volume `app_code` (Linux-Dateisystem) kopiert.
+`C:\hotel` dient nur als Git-Checkout. Liegt der Code dagegen per Bind-Mount auf `C:\`, braucht jede Seite
+mehrere Sekunden statt ~0,1 s (gemessen: 4,7 s gegenüber 0,13 s).
+
+**Umstieg von der ersten Version** (Code noch auf `C:\hotel` eingebunden): einmal komplett neu aufsetzen,
+die Testdaten gehen dabei verloren:
+
+```powershell
+cd C:\hotel
+git pull
+docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.server.yml down -v
+powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File docker\setup-testserver.ps1 -ShopDomain 192.168.178.20:8080 -NoSsl
+```
+
 ## Fehlersuche
 
 QloApps speichert Domain und HTTPS-Modus in der Datenbank und **leitet jeden Aufruf dorthin um**.
@@ -98,7 +114,7 @@ docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.server.yml exec -u www-da
 |---|---|
 | Status | `docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.server.yml ps` |
 | Logs | `docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.server.yml logs -f app` |
-| Update | `git pull`, dann das Setup-Skript erneut ausführen |
+| Update | `git pull`, dann das Setup-Skript erneut ausführen (baut das Image neu, Daten bleiben) |
 | Stoppen | `docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.server.yml down` (Daten bleiben im Volume `db_data`) |
 | Backup DB | `docker compose exec db mariadb-dump -uroot -p<DB_ROOT_PASSWORD> qloapps > backup.sql` |
 

docker/php-server.ini

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+; Test/production server tuning (mounted by docker-compose.server.yml).
+; With Docker Desktop the code sits on a Windows drive mounted into the container,
+; where every file check is slow. These settings avoid re-checking PHP files.
+; After a code update (git pull) restart the app container:
+;   docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.server.yml restart app
+
+opcache.enable = 1
+opcache.validate_timestamps = 0
+opcache.memory_consumption = 256
+opcache.interned_strings_buffer = 32
+opcache.max_accelerated_files = 30000
+opcache.save_comments = 1
+
+realpath_cache_size = 8M
+realpath_cache_ttl = 3600

docker/server-entrypoint.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copy the code baked into the image into the web root volume, then start Apache.
+#  pass 1: update code; runtime folders (uploads, generated images, caches, downloaded
+#          translations, config/settings.inc.php) are skipped
+#  pass 2: add any file that is still missing (first start, new defaults), never overwrite
+set -e
+
+SRC=/opt/qloapps-src/
+DST=/var/www/html/
+
+echo "server-entrypoint: updating code in $DST"
+rsync -a --chown=www-data:www-data \
+    --exclude='/.git' --exclude='/.env' --exclude='/.htaccess' \
+    --exclude='/config/settings.inc.php' --exclude='/config/xml/' \
+    --exclude='/img/' --exclude='/upload/' --exclude='/download/' \
+    --exclude='/cache/' --exclude='/log/' --exclude='/translations/' --exclude='/mails/' \
+    --exclude='/modules/*/translations/' --exclude='/modules/*/views/img/' --exclude='/modules/*/logs/' \
+    --exclude='/themes/*/lang/' --exclude='/themes/*/cache/' --exclude='/themes/*/modules/*/translations/' \
+    "$SRC" "$DST"
+
+echo "server-entrypoint: adding missing files"
+rsync -a --ignore-existing --chown=www-data:www-data \
+    --exclude='/.git' --exclude='/.env' --exclude='/config/settings.inc.php' \
+    "$SRC" "$DST"
+
+exec docker-php-entrypoint "$@"

docker/setup-testserver.ps1

@@ -81,10 +81,19 @@ $envVars = Read-EnvFile
 Step 'Build and start containers'
 Invoke-Docker @compose up -d --build
 
-Step 'File permissions for www-data'
+Step 'Wait for the app container'
-Invoke-Docker @compose exec -T app sh -c 'cd /var/www/html && chown -R www-data:www-data img mails modules translations cache config upload download themes override log'
+# the entrypoint first copies the code into the volume; wait until Apache answers
+$ready = $false
+for ($i = 0; $i -lt 60; $i++) {
+    & docker @compose exec -T app sh -c 'test -f /var/www/html/index.php && curl -s -o /dev/null http://127.0.0.1/robots.txt' 2>$null
+    if ($LASTEXITCODE -eq 0) { $ready = $true; break }
+    Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
+}
+if (-not $ready) { throw 'App container did not come up; check: docker compose ... logs app' }
 
-if (Test-Path config/settings.inc.php) {
+# the code lives in the Docker volume, so check the install marker inside the container
+& docker @compose exec -T app test -f /var/www/html/config/settings.inc.php
+if ($LASTEXITCODE -eq 0) {
     Step 'QloApps already installed (config/settings.inc.php exists) - skipping install'
 } else {
     Step 'Install QloApps (German, newsletter off)'