devilbox/docs/examples/setup-wordpress.rst

Setup WordPress

This example will use git to install WordPress from within the Devilbox PHP container.

After completing the below listed steps, you will have a working WordPress setup ready to be served via http and https.

Table of Contents

local

Overview

The following configuration will be used:

Project name	VirtualHost directory	Database	TLD_SUFFIX	Project URL
my-wp	/shared/httpd/my-wp	my_wp	loc	http://my-wp.loc https://my-wp.loc

Note

* Inside the Devilbox PHP container, projects are always in /shared/httpd/. * On your host operating system, projects are by default in ./data/www/ inside the Devilbox git directory. This path can be changed via env_httpd_datadir.

Walk through

It will be ready in seven simple steps:

1. Enter the PHP container
2. Create a new VirtualHost directory
3. Download WordPress via git
4. Symlink webroot directory
5. Add MySQL database
6. Setup DNS record
7. Visit http://my-wp.loc in your browser

1. Enter the PHP container

All work will be done inside the PHP container as it provides you with all required command line tools.

Navigate to the Devilbox git directory and execute shell.sh (or shell.bat on Windows) to enter the running PHP container.

host> ./shell.sh

* enter_the_php_container * work_inside_the_php_container * available_tools

2. Create new vhost directory

The vhost directory defines the name under which your project will be available. ( <vhost dir>.TLD_SUFFIX will be the final URL ).

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ mkdir my-wp

env_tld_suffix

3. Download WordPress via git

Navigate into your newly created vhost directory and install WordPress with git.

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd $ cd my-wp
devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-wp $ git clone https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress wordpress.git

How does the directory structure look after installation:

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-wp $ tree -L 1
.
└── wordpress.git

1 directory, 0 files

4. Symlink webroot

Symlinking the actual webroot directory to htdocs is important. The web server expects every project's document root to be in <vhost dir>/htdocs/. This is the path where it will serve the files. This is also the path where your frameworks entrypoint (usually index.php) should be found.

Some frameworks however provide its actual content in nested directories of unknown levels. This would be impossible to figure out by the web server, so you manually have to symlink it back to its expected path.

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-wp $ ln -s wordpress.git/ htdocs

How does the directory structure look after symlinking:

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-wp $ tree -L 1
.
├── wordpress.git
└── htdocs -> wordpress.git

2 directories, 0 files

As you can see from the above directory structure, htdocs is available in its expected path and points to the frameworks entrypoint.

Important

When using Docker Toolbox, you need to explicitly allow the usage of symlinks. See below for instructions:

• Docker Toolbox and howto_docker_toolbox_and_the_devilbox_windows_symlinks

5. Add MySQL Database

devilbox@php-7.0.20 in /shared/httpd/my-wp $ mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -p -e 'CREATE DATABASE my_wp;'

6. DNS record

If you have Auto DNS configured already, you can skip this section, because DNS entries will be available automatically by the bundled DNS server.

If you don't have Auto DNS configured, you will need to add the following line to your host operating systems /etc/hosts file (or C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc on Windows):

127.0.0.1 my-wp.loc

• howto_add_project_hosts_entry_on_mac
• howto_add_project_hosts_entry_on_win
• setup_auto_dns

7. Open your browser

Open your browser at http://my-wp.loc or https://my-wp.loc and follow the installation steps.

(1/7) Choose your desired WordPress language

(2/7) Read pre-installation information

(3/7) Setup database connection

Important

Choose 127.0.0.1 as the database host

(4/7) Database setup post screen

(5/7) Start WordPress installation

(6/7) Installation success view

(7/7) Login to Admin panel

Next steps