In my last post, I tried out using Azure Container Instance to host a simple HTTP service. Today, I am going to host wordpress on it.
Once loginned, run the following command:
az container create –name wp –image wordpress –resource-group testACI –ip-address public –port 80
You can find the full image name from docker hub: https://hub.docker.com
Use the ip address and port number from the output
Navigate it from a browser:
Choose the language and next
Now you will need to connect to a database
Let’s create one, in this example, I will use a mysql database
Enter database details
Then wait
Once finished, you can see all the info of this sql server
Telnet to test the server
To make things simple
I disabled SSL and enable Azure service
Before connecting from wordpress to mysql, we need to create a database for wordpress. I use phpmyadmin in docker to do this:
docker run –name myadmin1 -d -e PMA_HOST=feng-test-mysql.mysql.database.azure.com -p 8070:80 phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin
Now enter the database detail to wordpress
Now my wordpress is ready to use, remember to update the URLs when a domain name is used.
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Feng