This is the base docker-compose set up I use for WordPress sites. It contains images for apache-php, mysql, mailhog and the very useful wp-cli

How To Use

• Install docker-compose. See https://docs.docker.com/compose/

• Download WordPress from https://wordpress.org and put the wordpress files in the src folder

• In the wp-config.php file set up the database as follows

  define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

  define('DB_USER', 'root');

  define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');

  define('DB_HOST', 'mysql-server');

• Run docker-compose build

• Run docker-compose up -d and voila!! you're good to go

• In your browser go to http://localhost

• You can also add an entry to your hosts files (that's at /etc/hosts on debian-based systems) to customize the URL for the wordpress site. The default friendly name is wordpress.local. You can change this from the apache configuration file at includes/000-default.conf

• Access the mailhog app by going to http://localhost:8025