Docker Wordpress

Overview

This is a simple docker-compose project to spin up a WordPress environment. This workspace include access to WordPress:latest, mysql:5.7 and phpmyadmin:latest.

Getting Started

Follow these instructions to get a working Wordpress development build on you machince. All of this was built on mac. Some additional configurations or prerequisites may be required for other systems.

Credits

While I did use a lot of different resources for this including the Docker docs and the Docker image docs I do want to credit Peter Suhm. His blog "The easiest way to use Docker for WordPress Development" helped a ton when I was having some issues with docker-compose.

Prerequisites

1. Docker

Clone into project

git clone https://github.com/heyitsgeo/docker-wordpress.git <project-folder>

Bring containers up

cd <project-folder>
docker-compose up -d

Navigate to http://localhost.

Configuration

MySQL

Environment

• MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: yourRootPassword
• MYSQL_DATABASE: yourDatabase
• MYSQL_USER: yourDatabaseUser
• MYSQL_PASSWORD: yourDatabaseUserPassword

Volumes

• db_data:/var/lib/mysql

Ports

Port that mysql runs on.

• "3306:3306"

WordPress

Environment

• WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
• WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress

Volumes

This gives you access to all plugins and themes from root.

• /wp-content:/var/www/html/wp-content/

Ports

Port that Wordpress container with run on and forward to. Using 80 so it can be accessed through http://localhost.

• "80:80"

phpmyadmin

Environment

• PMA_HOST: db:3306
• PMA_PORT: 3306
• MYSQL_USERNAME: phpmyadimRootUSer
• MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: yourRootPassword

Ports

Forwarding port 80 to 8080

• "8080:80"