marrem/docker-wordpress-multi-fpm

Deploying multiple wordpress sites lightweight (alpine-fpm) behind nginx as reverse proxy

Easily deploy multiple Wordpress sites

Wordpress alpine-fpm containers behind nginx as reverse proxy

Quick start

• Clone repo
• Change into repo directory
• Run: docker stack deploy -c wordpress-multi-fpm.yml <stack_name>

Since fpm only handles php execution, the nginx container has to have access to the same file system as the wordpress container. This is accomplished by mounting the siteN_html into the nginx container as /siteN and into the wordpress container as /var/www/html

Wordpress containers normally mount an anonymous volume at /var/www/html. This is done in order to easily upgrade to a new version of wp. You change the image tag and restart the container. So it is unfortunate that nginx needs to access the volume as well. This necessitates creating a named volume. Now you will have to remove this named volume before up- (or down-) grading the wordpress container. Of course you will want to keep your site content (uploads, plugins, themes, etc), so I mount this as a seperate volume as siteN/wp-content into the nginx container, and as /var/www/html/wp-content into the wordpress containers