Create Docker WordPress Environment

This script creates a Wordpress Docker instance on your local machine, clones your WordPress theme repository, and sets up the project.

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Note

This script has only been tested on MacOS. Use on Linux at your own expense, though likely no issue with minor changes.

Unsupported on Windows.

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Requirements

• Docker
• Node.js (For Mac recommended install is via Homebrew, for Linux recommended install is via the CLI)

Recommended Changes

There are a few changes you have to make before running the commands. However, all these changes are simple variable manipulations. See the following table for instructions.

Line	Change	Description
14	GIT_REPO_BASE	The repo base the projected is located on
15	PATH_SCRIPT	The location of this script
16	PATH_PROJECT	The location of your local workspace

You will also need to allow this script to be executed with:

chmod +x PATH_TO_REPO/new-docker-wordpress.sh

Guide

Simply call this script from the CLI to run the script. Once run all you need to do is enter the project name (no spaces) and wait until it has completed.

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Note

Make sure you have have already prepared your WordPress theme repository on GitHub.

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Accessing the Docker MySQL Database

Make sure the container is running!

PHPMyAdmin [BROKEN]

1. Open localhost:8080 to connect to PHPMyAdmin.
2. Enter login credentials

MySQL Shell

You can use the following commands to access the MySQL shell.

1. docker exec -it CONTAINER_NAME bash
2. mysql -uroot -proot

Once inside you can use all your regular MySQL commands such as SHOW DATABASES/TABLES;, SELECT * FROM table;, etc.

Exporting Database

You can run the following command to pipe the database into an .sql export.

docker exec CONTAINER_NAME /usr/bin/mysqldump -uroot -proot DATABASE_NAME > ~/Desktop/PROJECT_NAME.sql

Importing Database into MySQL

Using the following command you can import an .sql file into a MySQL database hosted on Docker.

cat backup.sql | docker exec -i CONTAINER_NAME mysql -uuser -ppassword DATABASE_NAME

Key

The following sub-sections briefly explain how to find the unique information that will be different for every project.

CONTAINER_NAME

While docker container is running

1. Open Docker App
2. Click arrow to dropdown all grouped containers
3. CONTAINER_NAME = the MySQL container name

DATABASE_NAME

While docker container is running

1. docker exec -it CONTAINER_NAME mysql -uroot -proot
2. SHOW DATABASES;
3. exit

DATABASE_NAME = the database shown from SHOW DATABASES;.

PROJECT_NAME

The name of the project, i.e. the name of your project GitHub repository.

PATH_TO_REPO

The location of this cloned repository.