Trying to connect from 1 container to another from php api call

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For development I need to ‘connect’ with the ‘file_get_contents()’ php command from 1 container to another.
I’m using a default ngnix container from ‘jwilder/nginx-proxy:alpine’ with this configuration:

`

 version: "3.7"

 services:
    nginx-proxy:
        container_name: nginx-proxy
        image: jwilder/nginx-proxy:alpine
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    volumes:
        - ./certs:/etc/nginx/certs:ro
        - /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro
restart: always

networks:
  default:
    external:
      name: nginx-proxy

`

The 2 php containers are configured the same with this setup

version: '3'

services:
    apache:
        image: httpd:2.4.41
    networks:
        - www
        - default
    volumes:

        - ./docker/config/apache/httpd.conf:/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:ro
        - ./docker/config/apache/httpd-vhosts.conf:/usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:ro

        - ./src:/var/data/www:rw
php:
    networks:
      - www
    build:
        context: .
        dockerfile: ./docker/images/php/7.3/Dockerfile
    environment:
      ENABLE_XDEBUG: $ENABLE_XDEBUG
    volumes:
        # Mount point for project files
        - ./src:/var/data/www:rw

        # xdebug output
        - ./docker/data/xdebug:/var/data/xdebug:rw

        # Load PHP ini files
        - ./docker/config/php/xdebug.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini:ro
        - ./docker/config/php/php.ini:/usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/php.ini:ro

        # Load PHP-FPM config files
        - ./docker/config/php-fpm/zz-docker.conf:/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/zz-docker.conf:ro

        # bind ssh keys to be able to download private repos from github
        - ~/.ssh/id_rsa:/tmp/.ssh/id_rsa:ro
        - ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub:/tmp/.ssh/id_rsa.pub:ro

    working_dir: /var/data/www

networks:
    www:
        default:
            external:
                name: nginx-proxy

I have tries to add
extra_hosts:

  • “url_for_file_get_contents_command:172.30.0.4”
    so that the hosts is added in the /etc/hosts config. This did not work.

Help please!

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If you start all your php containers from the one compose file or if you run docker-compose -f file1.yml -f file2.yml they will automatically share the same network. Of course they need different service names.