How can configure the PHP extensions for Laravel project

[izniburak]

Hi everyone,

I want to deploy a Laravel project by using Dokploy. But I have an issue about that. I could not install and active some PHP extensions like GD, Redis, Imagick etc...

I tried Nixpacks and Railpack with related ENV variables like RAILPACK_PHP_EXTENSIONS=gd,imagick,redis or composer.json required object like that:

"require": {
    "php": "^8.2",
    "ext-redis": "*",
    "ext-gd": "*",
    "ext-zip": "*",
    "ext-imagick": "*",
   // ...
}

With Nixpacks, I got a different issue about the deployment process and I could not deploy the project as I expected. But Railpack works for the deployment, and completed successfully. However, the PHP extensions I defined are not installed and activated. I tried many things about that but I did not get any result.

Do you have any idea or suggestion about that? How do you complete your deployment process for Laravel application with additional extensions? How do you configure and customize PHP env on Dokploy?

Thanks.

[razorback21]

The same issue as of now. MArch 15 2026

[maks-oleksyuk]

You might want to try containerizing your application using Docker and Compose; this will allow you to set up everything you need to run your application