Demonstration Docker config for Wordpress on PHP-FPM behind Nginx

00_README.md

Proof of concept setup for Wordpress running under PHP-FPM with an Nginx frontend

Usage

Build a copy of this image:

git clone git://github.com/d9206eacb5a0ff5d6be0.git docker-nginx-fpm
cd docker-nginx-fpm
docker build -t nginx-fpm .

Launch an instance of wordpress:fpm just as you'd launch wordpress:

docker run -d --link some-mysql:mysql --name wordpress-fpm wordpress:fpm

Launch an instance of this image to front wordpress:fpm and serve static assets:

docker run -d --link wordpress-fpm:fpm --volumes-from wordpress-fpm -p 80:80 nginx-fpm

Dockerfile

FROM nginx:1.7
COPY wordpress-fpm.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

wordpress-fpm.conf

server { 
  listen 80; 
  server_name localhost; 
  root /var/www/html; 

  index index.php; 

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

  rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

  location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) { 
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
    if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
      return 404;
    }

    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO       $fastcgi_path_info;
    fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;

    fastcgi_pass   fpm:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php; 
  } 
}

Thanks for this gist, it helped me a lot.
BTW, it's also possible to simply start a container with a custom config file for nginx without building an image from Dockerfile:

docker run -d -v /some/wordpress-fpm.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:ro --link wordpress-fpm:fpm --volumes-from wordpress-fpm -p 80:80 nginx

Thanks @starikovs. I just saw this comment for whatever reason.

This needs revised. It will fail in the current config because fpm:9000 won't resolve. fpm needs an upstream block to define it as a named upstream, such as:

upstream fpm {
    server [SERVERPATH];
}

Refer to http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_upstream_module.html

I'm using this setup and only thing I'm getting back from nginx is 404. not a profi in nginx so cant say what exactly the problem is but this is the line that nginx throws at logs:

192.168.99.1 - - [04/Nov/2015:10:41:00 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 570 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.80 Safari/537.36" "-"

how can i configure nginx server to run wordpress in a docker container.I dont want to run nginx server in docker container.

@teward When this was written, it was intended for the case where the fpm container was provided with --link. In that case, fpm would indeed resolve based on the entries that Docker places in /etc/hosts.

still holds good today using docker compose. (hope that all Wordpress functions are OK)

Works for me, I just had to setup a shared volume between my nginx and wordpress-fpm containers so that nginx could serve static files while fpm processes php. If anyone out there can suggest a better solution, I am all ears.