pritesh242 / docker-wordpress-lemp

Wordpress on a LEMP stack with open ssh server and wp cli. All inside a single Docker image/container.

Wordpress on a LEMP stack + sshd and wp-cli

This repo builds automatically the Trusted Build image on the Docker's index here.

See it in action

I am using it for my blog here It's running behind the main nginx server on the host.

Some mysql variables are changed with a little increase in values like: innodb_log_file_size = 32M, tmp_table_size = 32M, max_heap_table_size = 32M, query_cache_limit = 2M

Percona Mysql Server

I chose the Percona DB server instead of the standard default mysql install.

The percona repos are used and it's the latest version of the time you bild it.

The server is installed quietly so you have to tighten its security if you're going to use this image for spawining containers in production.

NGINX, PHP5 FPM

These servers are installed with their defaults and only the default site config of nginx is changed with the one comming from the package's ./nginx/default file

WP-Cli

I decided to use this great tool from the console to download the latest wordpress package, install and configure it. Later updates, settings, posts of the blog can be managed by wp-cli. The .phar is installed in /usr/bin/wp so you can call it easily from everywhere.

Openssh-server

the only changes for sshd are the ones suggested by the docker team for Ubuntu 13.10 containers:

session optional pam_loginuid.so -> /etc/pam.d/sshd

LANG="en_US.UTF-8" -> /etc/default/locale

Backup/Update the Docker image/container

If you've made some changes through ssh or other way inside the container(you definitely made many changes in the DB by using the blog and adding posts/comments), you better keep the changes (it's better to stop the running services inside the container(one by one or with docker stop wordpress) before commit but it will still work if you don't do it, depends on the server load):

docker commit --run='{"Cmd":["sh","/run_all_servers.sh"]}' yourname/wordpress

Rerun the container from the latest image (don't wait and let all commands execute asap): docker stop wordpress && docker rm wordpress && docker run -d --name wordpress -p 80:80 yourname/wordpres

You may want to change -p 80:80 to -p 172.17.42.1:yourport:80 if you want to put it behind a proxy like I did.

Other

mirrors.ubuntu.com is used so you can rest asured the build and following updates will be fast using the closest to yourself server

Ssh to the container

From inside the environment where the docker is running:

docker inspect wordpress or the better one: docker inspect --format='{{.NetworkSettings.IPAddress}}' wordpress

get the ip from the information shown, for example let it be 172.17.0.2

connect: ssh [email protected]

say yes for the host to be added to the known_hosts and later remove it by executing ssh-agent -R 172.17.0.2

Things to change when using it on a different hosting environment:

If you want to use it on blog.example.com:

The params for wp core install will be:

wp core install --url="blog.example.com" --title="My Example Blog!" --admin_user="admin" --admin_password="strongpass" --admin_email="[email protected]"

Login on the blog with: admin/admin and change the admin password to a stronger one.

Ssh to the container and change the root password by executing: passwd, the default pass is: root

Again inside the container, change the mysql user wordpress's password to a stronger one using the mysql command:

echo "SET PASSWORD FOR 'wordpress'@'127.0.0.1' = PASSWORD('strong cleartext password');" | mysql

Also the root mysql user has no password set yet, there are a couple of root users/hosts combinations that you have to find: echo "SELECT user,host FROM mysql.user;" | mysql and then set the passwords for them

After changing the wordpress user password, go into /var/www/wordpress/wp-config.php and set the new password there too: define('DB_PASSWORD', 'strong cleartext password');

You can set a different timezone in php.ini, which currently is:

date.timezone=Europe/Sofia -> /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

Interesting stuff

I've created a better structured Dockerfile using multiline RUN commands to group similar commands into blocks.

Wordpress was not my first choise but after seeing it has a cli command line tool I quickly started building a new Dockerfile with this cms.

I am thinking about trying LocomotiveCMS and finally building a blog from scratch to get some new skills through the process. Stay tuned!