Scalingo 12-Factor Wordpress Distribution

• Configurable from environment
• Uploads sent to S3 by default

Features

Based on Bedrock

• Better folder structure
• Dependency management with Composer
• Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files
• Environment variables with Dotenv
• Autoloader for mu-plugins (use regular plugins as mu-plugins)
• Enhanced security (separated web root and secure passwords with wp-password-bcrypt)

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.6
• Composer - Install

Installation

1. Clone this distribution

git clone https://github.com/Scalingo/scalingo-wordpress
cd scalingo-wordpress
scalingo create my-wordpress
scalingo addons-add scalingo-mysql free

2. Update the application environment through the dashboard or with the Scalingo command line scalingo env-set VARIABLE_NAME=VALUE

• DATABASE_URL - Connection string to the MySQL database - mysql://localhost:3306/wp-bedrock - Automatically added with the Scalingo MySQL addon
• WP_ENV - Set to environment (development, staging, production)
• WP_HOME - Full URL to WordPress home (http://my-wordpress.scalingo.io)
• WP_SITEURL - Full URL to WordPress including subdirectory (http://my-wordpress.scalingo.io/wp)
• S3_UPLOADS_BUCKET - Name of the S3 bucket to upload files to
• S3_UPLOADS_KEY - AWS Access Key ID for S3 authentication
• S3_UPLOADS_SECRET - AWS Secret Key for S3 authentication
• S3_UPLOADS_REGION - Region of the S3 bucket
• AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY, AUTH_SALT, SECURE_AUTH_SALT, LOGGED_IN_SALT, NONCE_SALT

You can get some random salts on the Roots WordPress Salt Generator.

3. Add theme(s) in web/app/themes as you would for a normal WordPress site.

4. Deploy the application on Scalingo

# Optionally add theme to your git repository
git add web/app/themes
git commit -m "Add themes"

# Then push to Scalingo
git push scalingo master

5. Access WP admin at https://my-wordpress.scalingo.io/wp/wp-admin