This repo contains a recipe for making a Docker container for Wordpress using Apache. To build, make sure you have Docker installed, clone this repo somewhere, and then run:
docker build -rm -t <your_image_name> .
You'll need to bring your own MySQL DB. An easy way to do this (at least to start) is to simply run another docker container:
# This docker image will create a DB and grant privledges. Nice.
docker run -d \
-e MYSQL_DATABASE=<wordpress_mysql_db_name> \
-e MYSQL_USER=<wordpress_mysql_username> \
-e MYSQL_PASSWORD=<wordpress_mysql_password> \
-name wpmysql
orchardup/mysql
Then, we can run our wordpress container, linking it to the existing wpmysql
container:
sudo docker run -i -t -p 80:80 -e WP_DB=<wordpress_mysql_db_name> -e WP_USER=<wordpress_mysql_username> -e WP_PASS=<wordpress_mysql_password> -link wpmysql:mysql <your_image_name>
The start.sh script automatically uses the IP address provided by the docker
link to mysql. If you want to specify your our IP address to a remotely hosted
MySQL instance, you can simply run the command above, but instead of linking to
a mysql container, just pass in another env var to the docker run command as
... -e MYSQL_HOST=<your_mysql_host> ...
If you don't want to attach this directly to port 80 (maybe you want to run it
behind nginx and host multiple sites on one machine), just drop the -p 80:80
(and also the sudo) and forward traffic to the IP address of the container,
just use -p 80 and docker will auto-bind it to a localhost port, or bind it
to, say, 8080 using -p 8080:80 and then bind your other site to a different
port.