Docker Compose WordPress

Deploy self hosted WordPress using Docker easier than ever

Requirements

At first a machine with inbound and outbound ports HTTP (80) and HTTPS (443) enabled.

You need to point your domain to your web server and wait some time for changes to propagate. Often the time to wait is only a few hours but on occasions it can take as long as 48 hours

Here is my example of domain pointing

Name	Type	TTL	IP address
db.luismarroquin.com	A	1hr	40.77.100.215
wp.luismarroquin.com	A	1hr	40.77.100.215

Deploy services

1. Install the following command line tools

• Docker Engine
• Docker Compose

If you are using Ubuntu Server you could use this commands

# Download Docker convenience script
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh

# Execute the script
sudo sh get-docker.sh

# Add your user to the Docker group
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

# Refresh Docker group changes
newgrp docker

# Test that Docker is working
docker run hello-world

# Download Docker Compose
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.27.3/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

# Apply executable permissions to Compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

# Test Compose installation
docker-compose --version

# Update the package lists
sudo apt update -y

# Install the latest versions of all packages
sudo apt upgrade -y

# Remove previously required packages
sudo apt autoremove -y

# Reboot is recommended
sudo reboot

2. Get this repo code and move to folder

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LuisEnMarroquin/docker-compose-wordpress.git
cd docker-compose-wordpress

3. Create .env file with your information

Here is an example

WP_USER=luis
WP_PASS=secretPassword
WP_DATABASE=myDatabase
WP_ROOTUSER=anotherPassword
URL_WP=wp.luismarroquin.com
URL_DB=db.luismarroquin.com
CERT_EMAIL=me@marroquin.dev

This file can also be created sending all arguments positionally as follows

sh dotenv.sh luis secretPassword myDatabase anotherPassword wp.luismarroquin.com db.luismarroquin.com me@marroquin.dev

4. Run the following commands

docker-compose -f compose.yml pull
docker-compose -f compose.yml --project-name main up -d --remove-orphans

Remove services

# Stop services
docker stop service_phpmyadmin service_wordpress service_mysql proxy_letsencrypt proxy_nginx

# Remove unused containers, networks and volumes
docker system prune --volumes