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35 changes: 35 additions & 0 deletions drupal/content.md
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Expand Up @@ -46,6 +46,41 @@ $ docker run --name some-%%REPO%% --link some-postgres:postgres -d %%REPO%%
- Database name/username/password: `<details for accessing your PostgreSQL instance>` (`POSTGRES_USER`, `POSTGRES_PASSWORD`; see environment variables in the description for [`postgres`](https://registry.hub.docker.com/_/postgres/))
- ADVANCED OPTIONS; Database host: `postgres` (for using the `/etc/hosts` entry added by `--link` to access the linked container's PostgreSQL instance)

## Volumes

By default, this image does not include any volumes. There is a lot of good discussion on this topic in [docker-library/drupal#3](https://github.com/docker-library/drupal/issues/3), which is definitely recommended reading.

There is consensus that `/var/www/html/modules`, `/var/www/html/profiles`, and `/var/www/html/themes` are things that generally ought to be volumes (and might have an explicit `VOLUME` declaration in a future update to this image), but handling of `/var/www/html/sites` is somewhat more complex, since the contents of that directory *do* need to be initialized with the contents from the image.

If using bind-mounts, one way to accomplish pre-seeding your local `sites` directory would be something like the following:

```console
$ docker run --rm %%REPO%% tar -cC /var/www/html/sites . | tar -xC /path/on/host/sites
```

This can then be bind-mounted into a new container:

```console
$ docker run --name some-%%REPO%% --link some-postgres:postgres -d \
-v /path/on/host/modules:/var/www/html/modules \
-v /path/on/host/profiles:/var/www/html/profiles \
-v /path/on/host/sites:/var/www/html/sites \
-v /path/on/host/themes:/var/www/html/themes \
%%REPO%%
```

Another solution using Docker Volumes:

```console
$ docker volume create %%REPO%%-sites
$ docker run --rm -v %%REPO%%-sites:/temporary/sites %%REPO%% cp -aRT /var/www/html/sites /temporary/sites
$ docker run --name some-%%REPO%% --link some-postgres:postgres -d \
-v %%REPO%%-modules:/var/www/html/modules \
-v %%REPO%%-profiles:/var/www/html/profiles \
-v %%REPO%%-sites:/var/www/html/sites \
-v %%REPO%%-themes:/var/www/html/themes \
```

## %%COMPOSE%%

## Adding additional libraries / extensions
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11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion drupal/docker-compose.yml
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# Drupal with PostgreSQL
#
# Access via "http://localhost:8080" (or "http://$(docker-machine ip):8080" if using docker-machine)
# Access via "http://localhost:8080"
# (or "http://$(docker-machine ip):8080" if using docker-machine)
#
# During initial Drupal setup,
# Database type: PostgreSQL
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image: drupal:8.2-apache
ports:
- 8080:80
volumes:
- /var/www/html/modules
- /var/www/html/profiles
- /var/www/html/themes
# this takes advantage of the feature in Docker that a new anonymous
# volume (which is what we're creating here) will be initialized with the
# existing content of the image at the same location
- /var/www/html/sites
restart: always

postgres:
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