WordPress Docker

The project creates three Docker containers for quickly spinning up a development environment to work on WordPress using the latest version of MySQL and WordPress.

Requirements

• Docker
• Git Bash (If using Windows)

Configuration

• (Optional) Update the following credentials if preferred:

##  docker-compose.yml

## db service environmental variables
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=wordpress
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=wordpress
      - MYSQL_USER=wordpress
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=wordpress

## wordpress service environmental variables
      - WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=db:3306
      - WORDPRESS_DB_USER=wordpress
      - WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=wordpress

Run

Build containers

• Open Git Bash and execute the following command:

docker-compose up -d

(Optional) Re-run build command

If you encounter issues with network latency or timeouts, simply run the following command to tear down ALL docker container, images, and volumes.

WARNING All docker containers, images, and volumes will be deleted

./cleanup.sh
docker-compose up -d

Run the wizard

• Start WordPress by opening a browser and navigate to http://localhost
• Go through the normal WordPress setup wizard

(Optional) Database login

If you want to examine the database from a browser, do the following:

• Open the browser and navigate to http://localhost:8001
• When prompted, provide the username and password defined with MYSQL_USER and MYSQL_PASSWORD above

Stop and Restart

Stop a running stack

If the stack is currently working up and running, execute the following to stop stack without destroying anything.

docker compose stop

WARNING This will take a few minutes to bring down completely and the volumes remain running but that's fine.

(Optional) If the containers do not stop after a few minutes, you could execute a kill command.

docker compose kill

Restart a stack

To restart the stack without recreating it, run the following:

docker compose start