Run Two Laravel applications with docker on same server pointing to subdomain - laravel

Question

How do I run two Laravel Docker apps on the same server using one container per app and point to two domains?
Both apps are on the same AWS ec2 server
eg:
container one points to -> one.mydomain.com
container two points to -> two.mydomain.com
I'm new to this.
Is it even possible?
an apache solution would be preferable.

Answer 1

Yes, it is a possible and also different way to that and will suggest to use AWS services.
Using AWS load balancer and Host-based routing and different port publish for each app
Nginx
With AWS approach you need to run your container using ECS.
Create Load balancer
Create cluster
Create service
Attached service to Load balancer and update load balancer routing to Host-based routing app1.example.com, will route to app1
Repeat the above step for app2.
The above is the standard way to deal with the container using AWS.
You can read more about this gentle-introduction-to-how-aws-ecs-works-with-example-tutorial and Run containerized applications in production
With Nginx, you need to manage everything for your self.
Run both containers on EC2
Install Nginx
Update Nginx configuration to route traffic based on DNS
Update DNS Entry and will point to EC2 instance public IP, both DNS, for example, app1.example.com and app2.example.com will point to same EC2 instance but the Nginx will decide which app will serve the request.
server {
server_name app1.example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:HOSTPORT;
}
}
server {
server_name app2.example.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:HOSTPORT;
}
}
I will recommend these two approaches, Nginx over apache but if you are interested you can check this apache-vhosts