Developing WordPress sites with Docker 👇

📁 Project Structure:

app/ – The WordPress application files are in this directory.
bin/ – Useful command-line scripts
data/ – MySQL dump files go here.
docker/ – Files required by the Docker setup are in this directory.
README.md – Every project needs a README!
docker-compose.yml – Development orchestration config file.

Recommended add "data" folder to .gitignore

💾 Docker

Docker Install: https://docs.docker.com/install/ Docker Compose Install: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Hostname

Set up a host name pointing at 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts for the dev site.

127.0.0.1 example.loc

Docker Commands:

Start up with

$ docker-compose up -d

To Tear Down

$ docker-compose down --volumes

To rebuild the containers:

$ docker-compose up --build -d

To delete the db_data volume

$ docker-compose down -v

After building the images you can go to http://example.loc (if you set up a hostname) or go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and start work. Put WordPress in to app/ and the install process will start and create a database for you.

💿 Installing WP

📚 PhpMyAdmin

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8080 (http://localhost:8080) **login: ** root **passowrd: **password

Recommended to update wp-config.php (/app/wp-config.php)

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', $_SERVER['DB_NAME'] ?? $_ENV['DB_NAME'] ?? null);

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', $_SERVER['DB_USER'] ?? $_ENV['DB_USER'] ?? null);

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', $_SERVER['DB_PASSWORD'] ?? $_ENV['DB_PASSWORD'] ?? null);

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', $_SERVER['DB_HOST'] ?? $_ENV['DB_HOST'] ?? null);

// ... later ...

define('WP_DEBUG', (bool) ($ENV['WP_DEBUG'] ?? false));
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', (bool) ($ENV['WP_DEBUG'] ?? false));

The environment variables we set in docker-compose.yml are used here.

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