WordPress on PHP-5.6 using docker

Running WordPress on PHP-5.6 with MySQL-5.7 on Docker container

Motivation

• WordPress plugins/themes developers often need to make sure their plugins/themes are also compatible with php5.6
• Official WordPress docker image support start from php7.2

Running container

Building image

docker-compose build

Running containers:

docker-compose up

Running container in the background -d flag (for “detached” mode)

docker-compose up -d

Running with build:

docker-compose up -d --build

Executing bash of wordpress container

docker-compose exec wordpress bash

Stop services

docker-compose stop or docker-compose down

Access the site:

http://localhost:8080/

Reference

• https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-manually-build-docker-containers-for-wordpress/
• https://vsupalov.com/docker-arg-env-variable-guide/