Wordpress dev docker

A development docker for every wordpress project

Features

• Build for wordpress and has cli tools
• Bundle of fpm, cli, nginx, mariadb, phpmyadmin and redis containers
• PHP 5.5, 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 supported
• Database mariadb 10.x, mongodb 4.x ... supported
• Node 14.x, 16.x, 17.x, 18.x, ... supported
• Included wp, composer and node cli
• Support for PhpStorm or VSCode + WSL2/docker-desktop setup
• Support for xdebug included check .env file

Docker setup

• git clone https://github.com/readymadehost/wordpress-dev-docker.git project-docker
• cd project-docker
• mkdir project or git clone <some_git_repo_url> project for existing project
• cp .env.sample .env and review .env file
• docker-compose build
• docker-compose up -d
• docker-compose exec cli bash
• wp --allow-root config list for config list

New wordpress project install

• Download zip from official website and put wp code inside project dir
• Follow gui wordpress install

Notes

• Project URL: http://{localhost/any_valid_host}:8080/
• PhpMyAdmin URL: http://{localhost/any_valid_host}:8180/
• For more info and change, check .env and docker-compose.yml
• Manage permission inside container using bash alias mpp or /root/manage-project-permission.sh
• Mariadb default:- host: mariadb user: root, password: root, database_name: project

- <docker_root_dir> <-- docker root dir
- <docker_root_dir>/data <-- all docker data persist
- <docker_root_dir>/nginx <-- nginx
- <docker_root_dir>/php* <-- php cli and fpm containers
- <docker_root_dir>/.env <-- docker environment configuration

- <docker_root_dir>/project <-- project root dir

- <docker_root_dir>/project* <-- added in .gitignore
- <docker_root_dir>/*.sql <-- added in .gitignore

Phpstorm

Simply add remote docker php cli interpreter, change path mapping and configure remote interpreter everywhere.

Remote container extension + vscode

With vscode's remote container extension, we can simply connect into cli container.

Pre build docker image

• readymadehost/wordpress-dev-docker-php{PHP_VERSION}-cli:latest
• readymadehost/wordpress-dev-docker-php{PHP_VERSION}-fpm:latest

Quick Link

• Easy installation of PHP extensions in official PHP Docker images

  • https://github.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer

• MailCatcher

  • https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher

• ReadyMadeHost docker hub

  • https://hub.docker.com/orgs/readymadehost