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Emacs editing in a Wordpress Docker container

Posted November 23, 2018
Tags: Computer, Software, Linux, PHP, CMS, Server, Client, GUI, Web, Emacs, IDE, Docker, HTML, CSS

Create a Wordpress Docker image with Emacs editing set up (HTML, CSS, PHP files). With phpMyAdmin support. Under Debian Linux of course.

My Emacs configuration is used as an example to configure Emacs in the container.

Define the image via a Dockerfile

The Dockerfile:

# Basic PHP container for PHP editing with Emacs.
#
# Twitter: @maridonkers | Google+: +MariDonkers | GitHub: maridonkers.
#
# Use a .gitignore, e.g. https://salferrarello.com/wordpress-gitignore/

FROM debian

RUN sed -i "s#\smain\s*\$# main contrib non-free#" /etc/apt/sources.list

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq procps sudo git-core zip curl gnupg
RUN apt-get install -yq emacs25 vim silversearcher-ag

# Repository for newer PHP versions (Debian Stretch has 7.0 but e.g. phpactor requires >=7.1).
# https://tecadmin.net/install-php-debian-9-stretch/
RUN apt-get install -yq ca-certificates apt-transport-https
RUN curl -sS https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | apt-key add -
RUN echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ stretch main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq php7.2-cli php7.2-common php7.2-curl php7.2-mbstring php7.2-mysql php7.2-xml

ENV COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER=1
RUN mkdir -p /opt/php
RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/opt/php --filename=composer
RUN ln -s /opt/php/composer /usr/local/bin/composer

WORKDIR /opt/php
RUN curl -LO https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan/releases/download/0.10.5/phpstan.phar
RUN chmod +x phpstan.phar
RUN ln -s /opt/php/phpstan.phar /usr/local/bin/phpstan

WORKDIR /opt/php
RUN curl -LO https://psysh.org/psysh
RUN chmod +x psysh
RUN ln -s /opt/php/psysh /usr/local/bin/psysh

RUN sed -i "s#^\(www-data:.*:\)/usr/sbin/nologin#\1/bin/bash#" /etc/passwd
RUN echo "www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
WORKDIR /var/www

ENV DISPLAY=:0
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/bash"]

The Docker compose file

# Basic PHP container for Wordpress PHP editing with Emacs.
#
# Twitter: @maridonkers | Google+: +MariDonkers | GitHub: maridonkers.
#
# BEWARE: firewall must allow docker interface for 3306 (otherwise connection errors);
#       : use http://127.0.0.1:8080 to access Wordpress GUI if localhost doesn't work.

version: '2'
services:
  db:
     image: mysql:5.7
     volumes:
       - db:/var/lib/mysql
     restart: unless-stopped
     environment:
       MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
       MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress
       MYSQL_USER: wordpress
       MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress
     networks:
       - back

  phpmyadmin:
     depends_on:
       - db
     image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
     restart: unless-stopped
     environment:
       MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: somewordpress
       MYSQL_USER: wordpress
       MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress
       PMA_USER: wordpress
       PMA_PASSWORD: wordpress
       PMA_ARBITRARY: 1
     networks:
       - back
     ports:
       - 8090:80

  wordpress:
    depends_on:
      - db
    image: wordpress:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
       - www:/var/www
       - html:/var/www/html
    environment:
       WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
       WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
       WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress
    networks:
       - back
    ports:
       - 8080:80

  development:
    depends_on:
      - wordpress
    # restart: always
    image: wordpress-development
    build: .
    environment:
       DISPLAY:
    volumes:
       - www:/var/www
       - html:/var/www/html
    network_mode: host
    stdin_open: true
    tty: true

networks:
  back:

volumes:
  db:
  www:
  html:

Compose up

To build images and bring them up.

$ docker-compose up -d
Creating network "wordpress_back" with the default driver
Creating volume "wordpress_www" with default driver
Creating volume "wordpress_html" with default driver
Creating volume "wordpress_db" with default driver
Creating wordpress_db_1
Creating wordpress_phpmyadmin_1
Creating wordpress_wordpress_1
Creating wordpress_development_1

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080 for the Wordpress front end and http://127.0.0.1:8080/wp-admin for the backend. Visit http://localhost:8090 for the phpMyAdmin interface.

Connect to development image

First enable access for X-Windows:

xhost +LOCAL:

Attach to a bash shell in the container and set up Emacs.

$ docker attach docker attach wordpress_wordpress-development_1

From the bash shell in the container:

# chown www-data /var/www
# su - www-data
www-data$ git clone https://github.com/maridonkers/emacs-config.git /var/www/.emacs.d
www-data$ emacs --daemon

Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost.
Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem.
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading 00debian-vars...done
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...done
Loading /var/www/.emacs.d/loader.el (source)...
Lets install some packages
running packages-install
[yas] Prepared just-in-time loading of snippets (but no snippets found).
[yas] Prepared just-in-time loading of snippets successfully.
Loading /var/www/.emacs.d/loader.el (source)...done
Loaded /var/www/.emacs.d/loader.el
Wrote /var/www/.emacs.d/.emacs.desktop.lock
Desktop: 2 frames, 19 buffers restored.
Starting Emacs daemon.

www-data$ emacsclient -nc html/index.php

If the emacsclient command doesn’t work the first time then restart the Emacs daemon by repeating the emacs --daemon and emacsclient -nc html/index.php commands.

Emacs running