Setting up the CLIMB website

02 Dec 2014

If you have Docker installed, it is now trivially easy to set up a working Wordpress.org installation.

For example, this Github repository will set up Wordpress using MySQL and nginx:

https://github.com/eugeneware/docker-wordpress-nginx

Forking this repository permits you to make custom configurations to the setup.

git clone https://github.com/eugeneware/docker-wordpress-nginx.git cd docker-wordpress-nginx sudo docker build -t=”docker-climb.ac.uk” .

Then create the instance:

sudo docker run -p 192.168.1.5:9991:80 –name docker-climb.ac.uk-test -d docker-climb.ac.uk

Not much more to it than this.

It should be possible now to:

• trivially make copies of the entire website, e.g. to make the live version
• backup the website (content, configuration)

However, I assume this Docker instance is now fairly locked into whatever versions of MySQL and nginx etc. were used initially. To upgrade everything will require making a new Dockerfile which has all the files and changes associated with it?

Making a copy of an existing instance:

sudo docker commit -m “climb-test go live” -a “Nick Loman” 7ade97b25bc9 nick/docker-climb.ac.uk:live

sudo docker run -p 192.168.1.5:9992:80 –name docker-climb.ac.uk-live -i nick/docker-climb.ac.uk:live -d