Use WordPress locally with Docker using Docker compose
This setup comes shipped with:
- A
Dockerfile
for extending a base image and using a custom Docker image with an automated build on Docker Hub - Custom domain for example
myapp.local
- Custom nginx config in
./nginx
- Custom PHP
php.ini
config in./config
- Volumes for
nginx
,wordpress
andmariadb
- Bedrock - modern development tools, easier configuration, and an improved secured folder structure for WordPress
- Composer
- WP-CLI - WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress.
- PhpMyAdmin - free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB
- PhpMyAdmin config in
./config
- PhpMyAdmin config in
- CLI scripts
- Create a self signed SSL certificate for using https
- Trust certs in macOS System Keychain
- Setup the local domain in your in
/etc/hosts
- Docker
- Openssl for creatng the SSL cert. Install using Homebrew
brew install openssl
Easily set your own local domain, db settings and more. Start by creating .env
files, like the examples below.
Copy .env-example
in the project root to .env
and edit your preferences.
Example:
IP=127.0.0.1
APP_NAME=myapp
DOMAIN="myapp.local"
DB_HOST=mysql
DB_NAME=myapp
DB_ROOT_PASSWORD=password
DB_TABLE_PREFIX=wp_
Edit ./src/.env-example
to your needs. During the composer create-project
command described below, an ./src/.env
will be created.
cd cli
./create-cert.sh
Note: OpenSSL needs to be installed.
Use the bat file in in ./cli/windows scripts/create-cert.bat
Chrome and Safari will trust the certs using this script.
In Firefox: Select Advanced, Select the Encryption tab, Click View Certificates. Navigate to where you stored the certificate and click Open, Click Import.
cd cli
./trust-cert.sh
Follow the instructions in ./cli/windows scripts/trust-cert.txt
To be able to use for example https://myapp.local
in our browser, we need to modify the /etc/hosts
file on our local machine to point the custom domain name. The /etc/hosts
file contains a mapping of IP addresses to URLs.
cd cli
./setup-hosts-file.sh
The helper script can both add or remove a entry from /etc/hosts. First enter the domain name, then press "a" for add, or "r" to remove. Follow the instructions on the screen.
Follow the instructions in ./cli/windows scripts/setup-hosts-file.txt
docker-compose run composer create-project
docker-compose up -d
-d is for detached mode, this will run containers in the background.
Docker Compose will now start all the services for you:
Starting myapp-mysql ... done
Starting myapp-composer ... done
Starting myapp-phpmyadmin ... done
Starting myapp-wordpress ... done
Starting myapp-nginx ... done
🚀 Open https://myapp.local in your browser
PhpMyAdmin comes installed as a service in docker-compose.
🚀 Open http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in your browser
docker-compose run composer update
docker exec -it myapp-wordpress bash
Login to the container
wp search-replace https://olddomain.com https://newdomain.com --allow-root
Run a wp-cli command
You can use this command first after you've installed WordPress using Composer as the example above.
You can, but I recommend to use Composer for this only. But to enable this edit ./src/config/environments/development.php
(for example to use it in Dev)
Config::define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', false);
Config::define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', false);
When making changes to the Dockerfile, use:
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --build
Login to the docker container
docker exec -it myapp-wordpress bash
Stop
docker-compose stop
Down (stop and remove)
docker-compose down
Cleanup
docker-compose rm -v
Recreate
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate
Rebuild docker container when Dockerfile has changed
docker-compose up -d --force-recreate --build
- Added nginx gzip compression
- Added Windows support for creating SSH cert, trusting it and setting up the host file entry. Thanks to @styssi
- Remove port number from
DB_HOST
. Generated database connection error in macOS Catalina. Thanks to @nirvanadev - Add missing ENV variable from mariadb Thanks to @vonwa
- Added phpMyAdmin config.Thanks to @titoffanton
- Readme improvements. Explain
/etc/hosts
better
- Use
Entrypoint
command in Docker Compose to replace the domain name in the nginx config. Removing the need to manually edit the domain name in the nginx conf. Now using the.env
valueDOMAIN
- Added APP_NAME in
.env-example
Thanks to @Dave3o3
- Added
.env
support for specifying your own app name, domain etc in Docker and cli scripts. - Added phpMyAdmin. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/
- Added Linux support. Thanks to @faysal-ishtiaq.