Which path should I mount for wordpress in docker

Question

I'm new to wordpress. I'm trying to get it running in a docker stack.

I want to mount a named volume like so

-v wordpress_data:FOO

But I'm unsure what to use for FOO as I don't understand how wordpress stores its data.

What is the difference between /var/www/html/ and /var/www/html/wp-content/?

Answer 1

If you're running the official wordpress image from dockerhub, the docs advise mapping a volume to /var/www/html inside the container.

So your flag would look like:

-v wordpress_data:/var/www/html

What is the difference between /var/www/html/ and /var/www/html/wp-content/?

wp-content is just a subdirectory of the wordpress installation, which is created on first run. A number of other files can be found alongside it in this directory:

# ls /var/www/html
index.php    wp-blog-header.php    wp-includes    wp-settings.php
license.txt  wp-comments-post.php  wp-links-opml.php  wp-signup.php
readme.html  wp-config-sample.php  wp-load.php    wp-trackback.php
wp-activate.php  wp-content        wp-login.php   xmlrpc.php
wp-admin     wp-cron.php           wp-mail.php