Multisite WordPress container setup questions

  • Hello,

    I need to set up the multisite WordPress install and first I’ve experimented with the Bitnami’s ready-to-go VM/AMI, but the long-term maintenance seems to be an issue — lots of backups/restores each time the VM image is updated.

    So I’ve been considering the docker container, here’s the list of questions I still have after reading up on it for a few days:
    1. If I use the official WordPress docker (https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress/), do I just need to enable multisite with the php variable in configs or do I also need to modify the apache config files to support multisite?
    2. What are the differences between the official WordPress docker container and the one published by Caylent: https://hub.docker.com/r/caylent/wordpress-multisite/ ?
    3. I would like to store non-wordpress-code files outside of the container to ease the maintenance (the whole VM I’m setting up is going to be dedicated to the WordPress anyways). I’ve seen some guides on how to run docker with the custom files outside the docker, but I have no idea where the database used by the wordpress is stored. If I want it outside of the container, what do I need to do?
    4. Ideally, I’d like to store custom files/database in another docker container, but my exposure to docker has been very limited — how can I set up the container to just host files/database and expose the volume to another container?

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  • I have no idea what you are talking about.

    VMs? That sounds like a server and has little to do with WordPress. WordPress either works there or not.

    The backups and restores from the image update?

    Maybe you need to ask all this someplace else where there’s a bunch of Linux and VM experts.

    I have used the Bitnami and Turnkey installations… nothing to them really… they work fine.

    I’ve worked with the Installatron and Softaculous Installs. Those are fine, too.

    I’ve installed WordPress from a zip install also.

    I just treat the server as an appliance and make sure my appliance does what I need.

    Multi-site? Just follow the directions from Turnkey if you are using that. I think Bitnami and Installatron support multisite from the ‘git go’.

    Else follow the Codex Instructions.

    @jnashhawkins I find your answer to be a bit rude.

    I’m also investigating the use of Docker and Kubernetes in relation to WordPress Multisite. Specifically, I am trying to work out how the network flow will need to be implemented and how I will set up containers for scalability.

    Hi @txhorselady!

    I wasn’t trying to be rude… I really have no idea about what the OP was talking about.

    I was trying to point out that from the limited experiences I’ve had, “Maybe you need to ask all this someplace else where there’s a bunch of Linux and VM experts.”.

    I did dig into the Docker info just a little but honestly… I felt lost.

    I guess maybe I could have suggested Stack Exchange for a start. I really wasn’t sure that was a good place for the OP to ask either.

    I’d did point out that Bitnami supports his desire to run as a multisite. I’m not sure how docker would work with that but I’d think it’s a ‘do-able’.

    Rest assured that I try to follow up on subjects outside of what I’m doing and WordPress itself but, at some point, I must offer the little bit I know and plead my ‘lack of experience and knowledge’ outside of what I have done in the past.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by JNashHawkins.
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