WordPress Docker Help
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CompNetNeo · 2023-12-19 20:48

I have been trying to host a website with minimal fuss. I landed on
containerized wordpress as a good option for general flexibility.

I setup a Proxmox LXC WordPress container. Got it all working and
publicly accessible VIA CloudFlare + pfSense + HAProxy with ACME Cert
handling the SSL Cert and being handed off at HAProxy before going to
the WP LXC container.
This worked great! Until i figured out that I cannot live migrate an
LXC container. This presents an issue with uptime when a proxmox node
requires updates.

My next idea was a Ubuntu 22.04 server running portainer. This would
also allow me to run several websites on a single host. So away I go
standing up a portainer host like i have in the past for internal only
services.
It all went smoothly until i got to the point of making the site
publicly available. Same steps were followed with the LXC container
but i got a 503 error. I attempted to change the "site" URL within
wordpress but all it managed to do was make it impossible for me to
access the site even internally.

any guidance would be greatly appreciated! i am new to wordpress or
hosting a website outside of running web apps found through here and
git hub haha.

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zoredache · 2023-12-19 21:41

> I attempted to change the "site" URL within wordpress but all it
managed to do was make it impossible for me to access the site even
internally.

You didn't mention what image, or how you are running wordpress. But I
would look at the logs on the wordpress container.  A default
configuration of most wordpress images isn't going to give you useful
debug information through the web browser. Since displaying those logs
can etimes leak information that would weaken your security.

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CompNetNeo · 2023-12-19 21:56

ahh just used the basic config copied from official wordpress

version: '3.1'
services:
  wordpress:
image: wordpress
restart: always
ports:
\- "80"
environment:
WORDPRESS\_DB\_HOST: db
WORDPRESS\_DB\_USER: core
WORDPRESS\_DB\_PASSWORD: wpcoretest
WORDPRESS\_DB\_NAME: wordpress
volumes:
\- wordpress:/var/www/html
  db:
image: mysql:5.7
restart: always
environment:
MYSQL\_DATABASE: wordpress
MYSQL\_USER: core
MYSQL\_PASSWORD: wpcoretest
MYSQL\_RANDOM\_ROOT\_PASSWORD: '1'
volumes:
\- db:/var/lib/mysql
volumes:
  wordpress:
  db: