Setup Wordpress¶

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

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Table of Contents

Overview
Walk through

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

Walk through ¶

It will be ready in six simple steps:

Enter the PHP container
Create a new VirtualHost directory
Download Wordpress via git
Symlink webroot directory
Setup DNS record
Visit http://my-wp.loc in your browser

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Available tools

1. Enter the PHP container ¶

host> ./shell.sh

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Work inside the container

2. Create new vhost directory ¶

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

3. Download Wordpress via `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

4. Symlink webroot ¶

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

5. DNS record ¶

If you do not 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):

/etc/hosts¶

 127.0.0.1 my-wp.loc

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For in-depth info about adding DNS records on Linux, Windows or MacOS see: DNS records or Auto-DNS.

6. Open your browser ¶

Open your browser at http://my-wp.loc