Docker Compose file to spin up a local WordPress installation in a heart beat.

Make sure Docker daemon is running.

To start a WordPress instance & services, run:

$ docker compose up -d

To allow host user to write on wp-content/ from host machine, run this script:

$ chmod +x fix_permissions_for_local_development.sh
$ ./fix_permissions_for_local_development.sh

!!! Make sure SELinux is permissive, otherwise we won't be able to write on the bind-mount folder

To access Wordpress, go to http://localhost:18765 on browser. To access PHPMyAdmin, visit http://localhost:18767.

To stop running instance & services:

$ docker compose down

We don’t need to run wpcli as a service — only one at a time when we need to issue a command:

$ docker compose run --rm wpcli [--WPCLI OPTIONS] 

--rm, as an argument, simply removes the container right after it finishes wp command. If we did not do this, we would create an orphaned container.

For example:

$ docker compose run --rm wpcli post list 

is equipvalent to:

$ wp post list

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