Docker Compose and WordPress

Use WordPress locally with Docker using Docker compose

Contents

• A Dockerfile for extending a base image and using a custom Docker image with an automated build on Docker Hub
• PHP 8.1
• Custom domain and HTTPS support. So you can use for example https://myapp.local
• Custom nginx config in ./nginx
• Custom PHP php.ini config in ./config
• Volumes for nginx, wordpress and mariadb
• Composer - dependency manager for PHP
• Bedrock - modern development tools, easier configuration, and an improved secured folder structure for WordPress
• WP-CLI - WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress.
• MailHog - An email testing tool for developers. Configure your outgoing SMTP server and view your outgoing email in a web UI.
• PhpMyAdmin - free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB

• CLI script to create a SSL certificate using mkcert

Instructions and help

See the new Wiki

Changelog

2024-05-28

• Update Composer to use PHP 8.1
• Added a GitHub Wiki for instructions

2022-05-28

• Use PHP 8.1 Dockerfile is updated.

2022-05-28

• Use php:8.0-fpm-alpine as the base image on the image in Dockerfile [](https://hub.docker.com/repository/registry-1.docker.io/urre/wordpress-nginx-docker-compose-image/general)

2022-05-28

• Updated the Docker image to use PHP 8

2021-08-04

• Updated to WordPress 5.8.0

2021-03-16

• Changed root .env-example to .env.example to match the git ignore patterns. Thanks @scottnunemacher

2021-03-05

• Clarify steps in the readme

2021-03-02

• Fixed a misstake so instead of ./src/.env-example, it should be ./src/.env.example.
• Redirect HTTP to HTTPS. Thanks @humblecoder

2021-01-02

• Use NGINXENVSUBSTTEMPLATE_SUFFIX. Use a template and better substution of ENV variables in nginx config.

2020-10-04

• Added mariadb-client (Solves #54)

2020-09-15

• Updated Bedrock. Update WordPress to 5.5.1 and other composer updates.

2020-07-12

• Added Mailhog. Thanks @mortensassi

2020-05-03

• Added nginx gzip compression

2020-04-19

• Added Windows support for creating SSH cert, trusting it and setting up the host file entry. Thanks to @styssi

2020-04-12

• Remove port number from DBHOST. Generated database connection error in macOS Catalina. Thanks to @nirvanadev
• Add missing ENV variable from mariadb Thanks to @vonwa

2020-03-26