php5.6-docker image for pre-installed Wordpress

Running WordPress on PHP-5.6 with MySQL-5.7 on Docker container

Motivation

• WordPress plugins/themes developers often need to make sure their plugins/themes are also compatible with php5.6
• Official WordPress docker image support start from php7.3

Supported Tags

• rojen/php5.6-docker:no-mysqli (for which theme does not support mysqli extension)
• rojen/php5.6-docker:latest

Running container

pull:

docker pull rojen/php5.6-docker

run:

docker-compose up -d

Access the site:

http://localhost:8080/

Reference

• /~https://github.com/docker-library/wordpress/blob/394c79eafd5b345514f87cec590577e641c030ef/latest/php7.4/apache/Dockerfile
• /~https://github.com/khaledsaikat/wordpress-php56-docker