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Start Joomla with Docker in just a few clicks

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Christophe
Christophe
Markdown, WSL and Docker lover ~ PHP developer ~ Insatiable curious.

Start Joomla with Docker in just a few clicks

Yesterday lunchtime, while chatting with a friend, he highlighted a simple fact: explain the easiest way in the world to start a Joomla project with Docker.

The aim is to hop, hop, copy/paste a file, hop, Joomla is launched and you can start playing with the site.

Let's take a look; not in detail, but right to the point.

Here are the very few steps to follow to start your Joomla website using Docker:

  1. Surf to https://hub.docker.com/_/joomla

  2. Scroll down until you can the yaml content and click on the Copy button. That button appears when the mouse point is over the text (hidden otherwise)

    Yaml content

  3. On your computer, create a new file called compose.yaml and paste the content there

    VSCode

  4. The most difficult part is now: please start a new console, go to the folder where you've just created the file (in my case, I've created the file in my /tmp/joomla folder so I jump in it using cd /tmp/joomla)

  5. Still in your console, please run docker compose up --detach.

From now, Docker will download (just the first time) the Joomla CMS, PHP, Apache and MySQL. Then Docker will start the downloaded images (called containers).

Surf to http://127.0.0.1:8080/administrator and enjoy!

Joomla administrator

important

The admin account to use is joomla and his password is joomla@secured (as defined in the yaml file you've just copied earlier).

tip

This article is deliberately simple; please follow the Joomla tag if you want more than this introduction.