WordPress with Docker

This makes local WordPress development easy by spinning up a website using WordPress, MySQL and PhpMyAdmin.

Getting started

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1. Install docker in your system.
2. Pull this repository.
3. Create .env from .env-sample.
4. Set the required values in .env. Whatever you set in this file will be used to install mysql and setting up database for your website.
5. Execute docker-compose up -d from a terminal inside the directory.
6. Open up your browser and hit http://localhost:8000.
7. Proceed and complete installation.
8. Your website is ready to be developed to its next awesome level.

WordPress and phpMyAdmin are set to be exposed at port 8000 and 8080 respectively in your local machine. You may change this if these ports are not free in your system.

If you are doing this for the first time, then it will take some time to pull the images from Docker Hub. Everything will be done in seconds when you will have the images for WordPress, MySQl and phpMyAdmin in your local machine.

Key Commands

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docker-compose down to stop the container.
docker-compose build to rebuild the container.

See this for further reference on docker-compose, https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/

Extend

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If you want to install themes or plugins during the website setup, edit the docker-compose.yml file and map the files in the WordPress' volume.

For example, if I were to install Divi, which is a theme, I would add the following,
- ./themes/Divi:/var/www/html/wp-content/themes/Divi

And if I were to install Sucuri Scanner, which is a plugin, I would add,

- ./plugins/sucuri-scanner:/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/sucuri-scanner

Here, ./themes/ and ./plugins/ are local directories where you I would paste the files. You can create different directories on local to store the files. However, rest of the part for the mapping needs follow the directory structure of WordPress.

You will find commented out plugin, theme installation in the docker-compose.yml, you can remove those, add your own, or edit those. I left those as is because my frequent use of those.

Acknowledgement

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This is not production ready, I prefer this one for local development only.

My docker-compose.yml is an improved version of Brad's docker-compose.yml for WordPress. (Kudos to Brad Traversy for his contributions to the community.)

As of creating this repo, if you use Brad's version of the file, you may face database connection issue if your database name is anything else that wordpress.

Keep learning, and create your own awesome compose file. Don't forget to share it here. Let's talk about it!