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Docker environment for WordPress development

Sarah Siqueira on July 06, 2023

A little while ago, I wrote about the reasons why I changed from XAMPP to Docker, back then I shortly describe my actual Docker WordPress environme...
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das-now •

Hi Sarah,

Thank you for good guide. I would like to add one thing. In my case WordPress Health said that REST API is not working. As I've found the reason was that it try to connect not from outside, but from inside.
In file docker-compose.yml you have port mapping settings for WordPress section:

wordpress:
...
ports:
      - ${WORDPRESS_PORT}:80
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If we have in .env file

WORDPRESS_PORT=8000
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so REST is sending requests to 8000 port, and can't reach WP.
The solution: before running docker-compose up -d commandset in .env

WORDPRESS_PORT=80
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Sarah Siqueira •

Thanks for notice and reporting it @dasnow, I updated this post and the repository as well: github.com/sarahcssiqueira/docker-...