Drupal image without database

This image contains the latest stable Drupal 7-release. It will automatically setup the database and install a default site.

The image doesn't contain a database so you have to create a seperate database container (which is no effort if you use the provided configuration for docker-compose) and link this container or pass the database information of a MySQL- or Postgres-host.

Why create another Drupal image?

Many of the other Drupal images got a database baked in or didn't install Drupal automatically and didn't offer much flexibility. This image can be easily be used as base image for your own Drupal images see below Customization by using Dockerfiles. At the same time you can just use this image for a vanilla Drupal-experience that can be fully administered and extended via the web-interface as well as with drush on the command-line.

Usage

If you want to launch a bare Drupal image with a MySQL backend you can do so:

docker run -d -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD="test123" --name db mysql
docker run -d --link db:mysql -p 80:80 samos123/drupal

Alternatively you can use Docker-Compose in a directory that contains the provided docker-compose.yml:

docker-compose up

This will launch a new drupal site with a default theme and no additional modules. If you want custom modules, see Customization.

As customizations and uploads are stored you must take care of these directories if you want to keep these:

• /var/www/html/sites (modules, themes, uploaded files)
• /var/www/private (non-public files, e.g. to store backups)

As these folders are defined as volumes in the sample docker-compose.yml, you can easily update your container to use the latest image while preserving any modifications with:

docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d

Database options

You can use a linked database-container with the alias mysql or postgres as shown above - Drupal will be automatically configured to it. Or you use an external database-host. Therefore pass the following environment variables to your container:

• DB_DRIVER
  • allowed values are mysql (default) and pgsql
• DB_HOST
• DB_PORT
  • default: 3306 if DB_DRIVER == 'mysql'
  • default: 5432 if DB_DRIVER == 'pgsql'
• DB_NAME
  • default: drupal
• DB_USER
  • default: root if DB_DRIVER == 'mysql'
  • default: postgres if DB_DRIVER == 'pgsql'
• DB_PASS

Postgres

You can alternatively use a Postgres container. The configuration is very similar to that of MySQL as seen in the docker-compose.yml file, with a couple small changes.

There is an example docker-compose.yml available in the examples folder.

Other options

• VIRTUAL_HOST - sets the ServerName-directive for httpd and Drupal's base_url configuration variable; handy in conjunction with jwilder/nginx-proxy
  • if it is a comma-seperated list, the first value is used
• SERVERNAME - use this to explicitly set httpd's ServerName-directive
  • if none of these both variables are given, the /etc/hostname will be used
• BASE_URL - explicitly set the base_url configuration variable for Drupal
  • trailing slashes are not allowed
• BASE_URL_PROTO (default: https://) - if BASE_URL is derived from VIRTUAL_HOST, this will be prefixed as protocol
• UPLOAD_LIMIT (default: 10M) - sets variables for the PHP-interpreter to control maximum upload sizes
• MEMORY_LIMIT (default: 64M) - sets the memory_limit for the PHP-interpreter
• ADMIN_USER (default: admin) - sets the administrator account name when creating a new instance
• ADMIN_PASSWORD - (default: changeme) sets the administrator password when creating a new instance.

Customization

To create a customized Drupal-image, you can add/modify scripts in a derived image or mount them in your container into these directories: /scripts/setup.d and /scripts/pre-launch.d. Furthermore,

• the scripts' name must start with two digits, the rest may consist of alphanumerics, _ and -
  • the scripts will be executed in alphanumerical order of their names
• the scripts must be set executable (chmod a+x <scriptpath>)

See the folder examples on how to use the Zen-template and the modules_filter-module and build an image containing them.

Drush's system-wide configuration (/etc/drushrc.php) sets its default- behaviour to be verbose (-v) and affirmative (--yes) in order to grant easy and elaborated usage of scripts. If you want to change that behaviour in an interactive environment or for certain sites (e.g. docker exec -ti <drupal_container> /bin/bash), change it in an overriding drushrc.php-location.

See the documentation of php:apache on the usage of docker-php-ext-configure and docker-php-ext-install to install PHP extensions.

Credits

Authors of image: Sam Stoelinga, Frank Sachsenheim, Eric Rasche

Source code: https://github.com/samos123/docker-drupal

Registry url: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/samos123/drupal/