• Docker
• mkcert for creating the SSL cert.

Install mkcert:

brew install mkcert
brew install nss # if you use Firefox

Both step 1. and 2. below are required:

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.

Example:

DB_NAME='myapp'
DB_USER='root'
DB_PASSWORD='password'

# Optionally, you can use a data source name (DSN)
# When using a DSN, you can remove the DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, and DB_HOST variables
# DATABASE_URL='mysql://database_user:database_password@database_host:database_port/database_name'

# Optional variables
DB_HOST='mysql'
# DB_PREFIX='wp_'

WP_ENV='development'
WP_HOME='https://myapp.local'
WP_SITEURL="${WP_HOME}/wp"
WP_DEBUG_LOG=/path/to/debug.log

# Generate your keys here: https://roots.io/salts.html
AUTH_KEY='generateme'
SECURE_AUTH_KEY='generateme'
LOGGED_IN_KEY='generateme'
NONCE_KEY='generateme'
AUTH_SALT='generateme'
SECURE_AUTH_SALT='generateme'
LOGGED_IN_SALT='generateme'
NONCE_SALT='generateme'

1. Create a SSL cert:

cd cli
./create-cert.sh

This script will create a locally-trusted development certificates. It requires no configuration.

mkcert needs to be installed like described in Requirements. Read more for Windows and Linux

1b. Make sure your /etc/hosts file has a record for used domains.

sudo nano /etc/hosts

Add your selected domain like this:

127.0.0.1 myapp.local

2. Continue on the Install step below

1. Edit nginx/default.conf.conf to use this simpler config (without using a cert and HTTPS)

server {
    listen 80;

    root /var/www/html/web;
    index index.php;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass wordpress:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    }
}

2. Edit the nginx service in docker-compose.yml to use port 80. 443 is not needed now.

  nginx:
    image: nginx:latest
    container_name: ${APP_NAME}-nginx
    ports:
      - '80:80'

3. Continue on the Install step below

docker-compose up

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
Starting myapp-mailhog    ... done

🚀 Open https://myapp.local in your browser

PhpMyAdmin comes installed as a service in docker-compose.

🚀 Open http://127.0.0.1:8082/ in your browser

MailHog comes installed as a service in docker-compose.

🚀 Open http://0.0.0.0:8025/ 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

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

• Clarify steps in the readme

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

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

• Added mariadb-client (Solves #54)

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

• Added Mailhog. Thanks @mortensassi

• 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 value DOMAIN
• 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.