Multiple Wordpress Sites Deployment on Single Host

Main Docker images used in this repo

• alphacodinghub/wordpress-fpm: latest Wordpress release with PHP7 and PHP-FPM7, and with Redis driver installed for Wordpress Redis Object Cache plugin
• nginx: to serve as the web server for Wordpress
• mariadb: to serve as the database server for Wordpress
• redis: to serve Redis Object Cache plugin

Easy deployment of multiple wordpress sites on single VPS

In order to use this repo, you will need to have the Docker app management tool set installed on the host. The tool set provides a set of efficient tools to deploy, manage and monitoring Docker apps.

With this repo, you will be able to deplot multiple Wordpress sites on single host very easily.

The only file you need to customize is .env-template, which sets some environment varialbles. In this file, you MUST change the below five environment variables to your own values. All other environment variables are optional. The five environment variables are:

• APP_DOMAIN: the main domain you own for deploying WP sites, e.g. example.com.
• DB_ROOT_PASSWORD: the root password of the Database.
• DB_NAME: the database name. This database is used for Wordpress.
• DB_USER: the user name of the above database for Wordpress to access the database.
• DB_PASSWORD: the database password for Wordpress to access the database.

Deploy a Wordpress site

To deploy a Wordpress website on your VPS, follow the below steps:

Step 1: Clone the repo to your VPS

git clone https://github.com/alphacodinghub/wordpress-fpm.git
cd wordpress-fpm

Step 2: Customize the environment variables

Edit the file .env-template and set appropriate values.

Step 3: Deploy a Wordpress site

Assume you want to deploy your Wordpress site in the folder /app, and you name this Wordpress site as myblog. Run the below command in the repo folder:

bash ./wp-deploy.sh /app/  myblog

The above command will install a Wordpress site in the folder /app. You can access the site via:

https://myblog.example.com

Note: please replace example.com with your own domain.

To deploy more Wordpress sites, just repeat Step 3.

Step 4: Set up the Redis Object Cache plugin

Follow the below steps to set up the Wordpress Redis Object Cache plugin:

• Log into your wordpress site and enter the Dashboard.
• Add new plugin on your Dashboard, find the Redis Object Cache plugin. Click the Install Now button to install the plugin.

• After installing the plugin, click the Activate button to activate the plugin.

• Go to the Installed Plugins from the dashboard. Click Settings under the Redis Object Cache.

• On the Settind screen, you will notice that the "Status" is Disabled. Click the Enable Object Cache button.

• When the screen is updated you will find the "Status" has changed to Connected.