Wordpress on fly.io

A starting point for deploying a Wordpress application to fly.io.

Based on wordpress-env.

Features

• Fully dockerized & repeatable.
• Uses SQLite plugin simple database management.
• Runs on locally & on fly.io

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Create fly.io Account
• Install flyctl CLI
• flyctl CLI Login

WIP

• This doesn't cover getting wp-content/uploads to persist within a volume, but this can be done using the instructions for the database volume

Local Setup & Startup

Same as wordpress-env

Deployment

1. Create fly.io application:

fly launch

2. Fill out fly launch questions:

Question	Tip
Choose an app name (leave blank to generate one):	Must be globally unique
Choose a region for deployment:	Pick the closest region (remember the 3-letter code)
Would you like to set up a Postgresql database now?	No
Would you like to set up an Upstash Redis database now?	No
Create .dockerignore from 1 .gitignore files?	Yes
Would you like to deploy now?	No (we stil need to set up a volume)

3. Create a volume for the wp-content/database directory. This creates a 1gb volume associated with our new app (make sure you replace $REGION_CODE with the 3-letter code from above):

fly volumes create wordpress_database --region $REGION_CODE --size 1

4. Replace the [env] line in fly.toml with the following lines:

[build.args]
  PORT=8080

[mounts]
  source="wordpress_database"
  destination="/var/www/html/wp-content/database"

[env]
  WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA=""

5. Deploy app:

fly deploy

6. Ensure deployment was successful. You can view the deployment progress in your fly.io dashboard > [your new app] > Monitoring

7. SSH into VM and fix volume permission issue. fly.io gives the root user ownership of the mounted volume, which we must manually fix by running:

fly ssh console
chown -R www-data /var/www/html/wp-content/database

8. Go to the application URL listed in your fly.io dashboard > [your new app] > Overview

9. Follow the Wordpress installation instructions.