Wordpress

This article explains how to use Docker Compose to install WordPress with PHPMyAdmin as an extra for database administration. WordPress runs on a Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP (LAMP) stack.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we use official images from Docker Hub with MariaDB as the Mysql Engine for this tutorial.

Create a virtual machine (VM) using a docker official Ubuntu OMI. For more information, see Creating VMs.
Allow SSH connection to it and connect to your VM via SSH. For more information, see Accessing a Linux VM.
Create a wordpress directory:
```
$ mkdir wordpress && cd wordpress
```

Create a Docker Compose file in it called docker-compose.yml:

docker-compose.yml

wordpress:
  image: wordpress
  links:
    - wordpress_db:mysql
  ports:
    - 80:80
  volumes:
    - ~/wordpress/wp_html:/var/www/html

wordpress_db:
  image: mariadb
  environment:
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 53cur3dP455
  ports:
    - 3306:3306

phpmyadmin:
  image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
  links:
    - wordpress_db:db
  ports:
    - 8080:80
  environment:
    MYSQL_USERNAME: root
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 53cur3dP455

Launch everything:
```
$ docker-compose up -d
```

Docker Compose is not installed by default on the OMI used. To install it, launch these additional commands before:

curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.11.1/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

or alternatively using PIP:

pip install docker-compose