Boilerplates for managing multiple wordpress sites under 1 machine & 1 IP using docker-compose and NGINX.

The idea behind the whole thing is that you have your sites in docker-compose instances, where each instance has it's own wordpress, DB, and an NGINX instance. You can easily fire up new wordpress sites when needed using docker-compose, and then simply modify the main NGINX instance to route to that new webserver.

This is quick tutorial is primarly for Ubuntu-based systems. You can substitute the OS-specific commands to your own easily though.

1. Install nginx

   sudo apt install nginx

2. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/THE-SIMPLE-MARK/wordpress-docker.git

# enter the freshly cloned directory
cd wordpress-docker

3. Modify your main NGINX config You can either modify nginx_http.conf or nginx_https.conf depending on if you intend to use https or not.

   Both files provide a basic example of the multi-domain routing. You need to replace {DOMAIN1} and {DOMAIN2} as with your actual domain(s). You can remove the instances of the second domain with a pretty basic knowledge of NGINX's config syntax if you only intend to use one or add more if you need more instances.

   sudo nano /main_nginx/nginx_http.conf
   # or
   sudo nano /main_nginx/nginx_https.conf

4. Override the default NGINX config with your own

   sudo cp /main_nginx/nginx_http.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
   # or
   sudo cp /main_nginx/nginx_https.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
   

5. Create site directory TODO

6. Edit docker compose config TODO

7. Create env variable TODO

8. Create site NGINX config TODO

9. Execute docker-compose TODO