Docker: FTP/SFTP to /var/www/ in Docker Container?

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#1

I'm trying to run Docker on my VPS, to maximise the use of my server.

My server mainly run LAMP stack, but I wanted to have other Docker-image based apps too.

So, I did make a Docker Container with LAMP running. The question is, how do I manage to upload files into the container (which Apache's /var/www/ is there.)?

SFTP is what I've been always using, but I can't find the way to SSH into the Docker Container, so I can access filesystem in the container, so I'd prefer that.

But if there are better practice, I'm willing to adapt it!

#2

Use docker volumes, to store files in host system. For example, you can run your image with these options:

docker run --name mylamp -v /docker/site:/var/www -p 80:80 me/mylamp:tag

Now, your mylamp image mounts internal /var/www directory to external /docker/site directory, so you can use SSH/SFTP/FTP to upload files to /docker/site directory on your host system, and it will be visible inside docker image in /var/www directory.