Dockpress

Dockpress is a Docker-based basic LEMP development environment designed for WordPress applications.

Looking for a similar Docker environment for Laravel? Then give a try to Laradhoc!

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Features

• Nginx
• PHP (7.2 / 7.3 / 7.4) with OPCache
• MySQL / MariaDB
• Mailhog
• Redis
• Custom domain name (e.g. http://mydockpress.test)

You can choose which version of PHP (for example, 7.4) to run by setting ${PHP_VERSION} variable in your .env file (see .env.example for details).

Likewise, you can choose your database (for example, MariaDB 10.2) by setting ${DATABASE_IMAGE} variable in your .env file (see .env.example for details)

In case you want to customize your Docker configuration (e.g. adding some mount), just run cp docker-compose.yml docker-compose.override.yml then edit your docker-compose.override.yml. It will be used by Docker.

Requirements

• MacOS, Linux or Windows with WSL
• Docker

Installation

Just clone this repo.

Let's pretend your WordPress application will be accessible at mydockpress.test:

git clone git@github.com:eleftrik/dockpress.git mydockpress.test
cd mydockpress.test

Configuration

.env

Create an .env file from .env.example

cp .env.example .env

# Customize every variable according to your needs
# See comments to each variable in .env.example file 

Custom domain

According to the value of ${APP_HOST}, add your test domain (e.g. mydockpress.test) to your hosts file

sudo /bin/bash -c 'echo -e "127.0.0.1 mydockpress.test" >> /etc/hosts'

Let's go

Build all Docker containers and start them

 .docker/scripts/init

New WordPress project starting from the scratch? No problem, just run:

.docker/scripts/wp-install

A fresh WordPress installation will be downloaded in ${APP_SRC}, configured and available at http://${APP_HOST} or https://${APP_HOST}

Finished working? Just stop everything:

.docker/scripts/stop

Next time you need to run your application, if you haven't changed any setting, just run

 .docker/scripts/start

Updates

When updating from a previous version, follow these steps:

• update your code

  • via git pull if you're still referencing this repository, a fork or a private one
  • manually downloading the desired release

  In both cases, the src/ folder won't be affected

• see CHANGELOG.md

• update your ./.env file according to ./.env.example (new variables may have been introduced)

• if you have overridden docker-compose.yml using docker-compose.override.yml, see docker-compose.yml to check if something has added, changed or deleted, compared to the previous version of docker-compose.yml you were using before updating

• launch .docker/scripts/start --build

Scripts

Dockpress provides some useful script, located in .docker/scripts.

Run them from your Dockpress base folder.

init

.docker/scripts/init

It's a shortcut to

docker-compose up -d --build

It will build and start the containers

start

.docker/scripts/start

It's a shortcut to

docker-compose up -d

You can add the flag --build if you want to build the images, otherwise

.docker/scripts/start

is enough to bring up the environment

stop

Tired of working? Stop the environment

.docker/scripts/stop

wp-install

It's useful to bring up a new WordPress project. It will prepare a fresh WordPress installation in your ${APP_SRC}, create a ${APP_SRC}/.env file holding the same values which are in the main .env file, create a ${APP_SRC}/wp-config.php file which uses the aforementioned .env file

.docker/scripts/wp-install

nah

Want to throw away anything? This command will stop all containers, delete volumes and the entire $APP_SRC.

So, before executing this command, BE SURE you understood very well that you're going to lose all your WordPress codebase and the related database!

.docker/scripts/nah

To throw away anything and start again from the scratch, use

.docker/scripts/nah && .docker/scripts/init && .docker/scripts/wp-install

Accessing the database

You can connect to your database via command line or using a tool.

For example, from the command line:

source .env
mysql -u$MYSQL_USER -p$MYSQL_PASSWORD -h127.0.0.1 $MYSQL_DATABASE

I bet you prefer to use your favorite tool, for example:

• TablePlus
• SequelPro
• HeidiSQL

etc.

Just use the parameters stored in your .env file.

MailHog

To catch all outgoing emails via MailHog, install a WordPress plugin (e.g. WP Mail SMTP) and use this configuration:

• SMTP host=mailhog
• SMTP port=1025
• SMTP username=(leave blank)
• SMTP password=(leave blank)

MailHog web interface is available at

http://${APP_HOST}:${MAILHOG_PORT}

For example: http://mydockpress.test:8081

Contributing

Suggestions, reviews, bug reports are very welcome. We never stop learning :-)

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Thanks

Thanks to Mauro Cerone for the inspiration

License

MIT