The Solution that finally worked was to turn down the containers using docker-compose down command. I was not detaching the containers, but I still need to turn them down. Once I did so, I then run the command docker volume ls to list all the volume and delete the one with WordPress data in it … Read more
It is not possible to use Docker Desktop for Windows with Vagrants due to Docker’s use of Hyper-V. Docker Toolbox can be used but it is a legacy version and getting localhost to work is a pain. Instead, we set up Mint on an old laptop and installed Docker CE and it works great.
It’s easy to install a theme on WordPress. There are a couple of options, but for the underscores.me starter theme, the easiest option would be to go to https://underscores.me/ and enter your theme’s name and then click the “Generate” button. Wait a moment, and a zip file should start downloading. Once you’ve got the zip … Read more
Not sure if it is related, but just in case, as for the last time I looked at it WP core 5.8 have bugs in dbdelta relating to MySQL 8 when integers are involved. Latest MariaDb seems to do better. I would assume that as of 5.8 core is not ready to be deployed on … Read more
There are ever-so-many ways to access the database. ddev describe will open your eyes to them. As @Andy Mardell points out, you can use the built-in PHPMyAdmin (link in ddev describe) You can also use a mysql client on the host, the port and such for this are also shown in ddev describe You can … Read more
Deploy WordPress From Local Docker to Hosting Provider
Volume mounts when setting up WordPress with docker [closed]
wp-admin Redirects to Docker Container Name
I wrote up a short tutorial in this other answer which goes into a little more detail, but I think you want to use docker-compose to define any directories (volumes) that you want to share between your local environment and the container environment. There may be a way to do this directly with Docker, but … Read more
There is really only two things you need to back up. The database, and the site data. The database is all your users, posts, categories, tags, etc. The site data includes your themes, plugins, uploaded media, etc. To backup the database, just dump the data with mysqldump. mysqldump -u {username} -p{password} wordpress > database_dump.sql If … Read more