Wordpress Docker Compose

WordPress Docker Compose: A Comprehensive Guide

WordPress has been a popular platform for hosting applications, themes, and plugins for over 20 years. With the help of Docker, setting up a local WordPress development environment is now easier than ever before. In this guide, we will explore how to use Docker Compose to set up a local WordPress installation on your own machine.
Before we begin, it’s important to note that you should have already installed Docker on your local machine. If you haven’t done so yet, be sure to download the desktop client for your platform from the official Docker website.

Getting Started with WordPress and Docker Compose

To set up a local WordPress installation using Docker Compose, we first need to create a new directory for our project. Once we’ve done that, we can navigate into the new directory and create a new file called “docker-compose.yml”. This file will contain all of the configuration information necessary to set up our WordPress installation.

version: '3'
services:
 db:
 image: mysql:5.7
 volumes:
 - db_data:/var/lib/mysql
 restart: always
 environment:
 MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: wordpress
 MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
 MYSQL_USER: wordpress
 MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress
 web:
 image: wordpress:5.7.2
 volumes:
 - .:/var/www/html
 ports:
 - 8080:80
 restart: always
 depends_on:
 - db
 networks:
 - wordpress-network
 volumes:
 db_data:

In this example, we’re using the official WordPress and MySQL Docker images to set up our installation. The “db” service is configured with a password, database name, user, and password for our WordPress installation. The “web” service is configured to use the current directory as its document root and to forward port 8080 on our local machine to port 80 on the container.

Running Docker Compose

Now that we’ve created our “docker-compose.yml” file, we can run the following command in our terminal:

$ docker-compose up -d

This will start our WordPress and MySQL containers in detached mode, meaning that they’ll run in the background.

Accessing Our New WordPress Installation

Once our containers have finished starting up, we can access our new WordPress installation by navigating to “http://localhost:8080” in our web browser. From here, we can follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.

Conclusion

In this guide, we’ve explored how to use Docker Compose to set up a local WordPress development environment. By using Docker Compose, we were able to quickly and easily configure our WordPress installation without having to manually install and configure Apache or any other dependencies.