Wordpress Development Enviroment in Docker

Follow the following steps to get a running clone of your wordpress blog in a local docker environment on MacOS

Prerequisits

1. Docker is installed
2. GIT is installed
3. You have full backup of your wordpress blog including a database dump.

Get it up and running

1. Clone this GIT repository to any directory on your Mac. To do so, run the following command: git clone https://github.com/Cevi-Uster/
2. Create the folders for the files and the database. Run the following commands to do so: mkdir -p data/wp mkdir -p data/database
3. Copy the files from the backup in to the folde data/wp
4. Copy the MySQL dump into data/database and rename it to database.sql
5. Make the file replaceUrlInDatabase.sh executable. To do so, run the following command: chmod 755 replaceUrlInDatabase.sh
6. Adjust the replaceUrlInDatabase.sh according to your needs and run it.
7. Start Docker with the following command: docker-compose -up

Test

Open your favorite browser and navigate to (http://127.0.0.1:8000).

Finish work

If everything works as expected, stop docker by pressing Ctrl+C in the shell and restart it by running the folling command: docker-compose up -dto start Docker in detached mode.

Known problems

Wrong theme after restore

In my environment. Wordpress came up with the default theme instead of our own child-theme. I had to reset it by hand in the clone.