Caddy server + FPM + Wordpress

A docker compose to quickly get a Wordpress instance up and running, to serve as a starting point for blogs, pages, or installation of WooCommerce and other e-commerce stores.

This is for Crowdtainer's own use and to help others get up and running quickly with their projects.

1- Setup env vars:

cp config.env.example config.env
# Edit config.env accordingly

2- Add or delete any static sites you would like to serve in the /static_sites folder.

3- Edit conf/Caddyfile accordingly following the provided Caddy example file.

4- Make sure your server is reachable by respectively declared DNS/domains.

5- Create the required volumes and run docker:

docker volume create --name=caddy_data
docker-compose --env-file config.env up --build

# To read logs:
docker compose logs -f

Now configure the Wordpress site by opening the page in your browser, or using wp-cli tool, e.g.:

docker-compose --env-file config.env run --rm wp-cli core install --url=example.com --title=Example --admin_user=supervisor --admin_password=strongpassword [email protected]

Once everything is as desired, you can use the "vackup.sh" script to save the volumes and reload it somewhere else:

# source machine:
./vackup export VOLUME FILE // Creates a gziped tarball in current directory from a volume

# target machine:
./vackup import FILE VOLUME // Extracts a gziped tarball into a volume

Running in production:

Usually it will be necessary to rename wordpress's hostname (localhost vs example.com). This can be done with the following command:

docker-compose --env-file config.env run --rm wp-cli search-replace "localhost" "shop.example.com"

To backup wordpress database to a file:

docker compose --env-file config.env run --rm wp-cli db export - > demo_wp-2023-02-19-2.sql