Create symlink on bookmarked container volume

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I’m trying to setup symbolic links inside volume excluded folders by bookmarking them. Considering bookmarked folders are not linked to host, I thought it would be possible to create symlinks inside my container, but no. Is there any way to achieve this goal? I have a legacy repository with multiple projects (applications) inside the same repository and a Common folder that would be symlinked within all these apps folders. For development environment purposes I need to use a VOLUME to reload my browser with the updated code.

I’ve tried to point volume like /dev/null:/var/www/html/CommonFolder instead of bookmarking, also without success.

Thanks in advance.

docker-compose.yml:

version: '3'

services:
  app:
    build:
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
      context: ./
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    volumes:
      - .:/var/www/html # references to host
      - /var/www/html/CommonFolder # bookmark
      - /var/www/html/TargetFolder1/BookmarkedFolder1 # bookmark
      - /var/www/html/TargetFolder1/BookmarkedFolder2 # bookmark
      - /var/www/html/TargetFolder2/BookmarkedFolder1 # bookmark
      - /var/www/html/TargetFolder2/BookmarkedFolder2 # bookmark
      - /var/www/html/TargetFolder3/BookmarkedFolder1 # bookmark
      - /var/www/html/TargetFolder3/BookmarkedFolder2 # bookmark

Dockerfile:

FROM php:7.4.19-apache
# REMOVED UNNECESSARY LINES

# /var/www/html points to host
WORKDIR /var/www/html

COPY ./Common .

RUN for i in TargetFolder1 TargetFolder2 TargetFolder3; do \
    rm -Rf "/var/www/html/$i/BookmarkedFolder1" && \
    ln -s "/var/www/html/CommonFolder/Folder1" "/var/www/html/$i/BookmarkedFolder1" && \
    rm -Rf "/var/www/html/$i/BookmarkedFolder2" && \
    ln -s "/var/www/html/CommonFolder/Folder2" "/var/www/html/$i/BookmarkedFolder2" \
    ; done

EXPOSE 80

CMD ["/usr/sbin/apache2ctl", "-DFOREGROUND"]