Automatically download, configure, install and run WordPress thanks to WP-CLI.

Warning: WordPress is launched wih the PHP's built-in web server. It is not intended to be a full-featured web server. It should not be used on a public network.

How to use it

With docker compose

The simplest is to use docker compose:

docker-compose up -d

This launch two containers:

• web: the WordPress installation itself, from the Dockerfile,
• db: the official mysql container.

When you start the containers with docker-compose, you can adjust the configuration in the .env file (see “Environment Variables” for possible values).

With docker engine

docker build -t wp .
docker run -d -e MYSQL_HOST=<host> -e MYSQL_USER=<username> -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=<password> -e MYSQL_DATABASE=<database for wordpress>

When you start the containers with docker-compose, you can set environment variables with -e <NAME>=<VALUE> parameters.

Environment Variables

• MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
• MYSQL_HOST=db:
• MYSQL_PORT=3306:
• MYSQL_USER=root
• MYSQL_PASSWORD=root
• MYSQL_DATABASE=wp
• WORDPRESS_URL=wordpress
• WORDPRESS_TITLE=WordPress site
• WORDPRESS_ADMIN_USER=admin
• WORDPRESS_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
• WORDPRESS_ADMIN_MAIL=admin@example.com

See also

• docker-wordpress-wp-cli
• docker-wordpress-cli
• wordpress-docker-dev
• docker-wpdev