Setup Craft CMS with Docker

This guide will take you through how to set up a Craft CMS instance in docker. It includes NGINX, PHP and MYSQL

1 Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/hanas879/craft-docker-compose.git

cd craft-docker-compose

2 Install craft files

• Create a folder named “code” mkdir code

• Download the latest craft and extract it to the code directory you just created v3 v4

• Do a sudo chown -R www-data code to change the permission so that nginx and php can access the files

3 Change config files

• Change the site.conf to what your site is called, something like yoursite.conf
• Inside the .conf:

server_name YourSiteHere.com;

server_tokens off;

root /code/web;

index index.html index.htm index.php;

charset utf-8; 

access_log off;

error_log /var/log/nginx/YourSiteHere.com-error.log error;

fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";

fastcgi_param HTTP_HOST YourSiteHere.com; # Change this

• Inside the docker-compose.yml change parameters to fit your needs

• Open up code/.env and apply the database settings from the docker-compose.yml to match.

CRAFT_DB_DRIVER=mysql
CRAFT_DB_SERVER=db
CRAFT_DB_PORT=3306
CRAFT_DB_DATABASE=craft
CRAFT_DB_USER=craftuser
CRAFT_DB_PASSWORD=craft

• You also have to make a Security Key for the craft instance. You can do this in tons of ways, but one of them is by running the command: openssl rand -hex 16 and take the output and put it in CRAFT_SECURITY_KEY=

4 Start the container

• docker compose up -d

• Now navigate to yourSite.com/admin/ and complete the installation