Simple Local WordPress

README.md

0. Install Docker
1. Create the docker-compose.yml in the empty directory we want to run the blog from
2. Run docker-compose up -d from the directory we saved the docker-compose.yml
3. Wait for everything to install and start
4. Ensure any additional configuration you have in your production WordPress is in your wp-config.php file, but not the database credentials
5. Replace the installed WordPress wp-content with your own
6. Ensure your WordPress database is synced with production, phpMyAdmin is installed on http://localhost:8080
7. You should now have a working local copy of your blog at http://localhost:8000

Instructions modified from Containerizing WordPress with Docker-Compose

docker-compose.yml

version: "3"
services:
  # MySQL Database Image
  mysql_database:
    platform: linux/x86_64 # Required for Apple M1 chip
    image: mysql
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: my_password_1234789
      MYSQL_DATABASE: my_wp_database
      MYSQL_USER: my_wp_user
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: my_wp_user_password
    volumes:
      - mysql:/var/lib/mysql

  # WordPress image based on Apache
  wordpress:
    depends_on:
      - mysql_database
    image: wordpress:latest
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "8000:80"
    environment:
      WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: mysql_database:3306
      WORDPRESS_DB_USER: my_wp_user
      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: my_wp_user_password
      WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: my_wp_database
    volumes:
      ["./:/var/www/html"]

  # phpMyAdmin to manage the MySQL database
  phpmyadmin:
    depends_on:
      - mysql_database
    image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
    restart: always
    ports:
      - '8080:80'
    environment:
      PMA_HOST: mysql_database
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: my_password_1234789

volumes:
  mysql: {}