Customize WordPress for Platform.sh

Now that your code contains all of the configuration to deploy on Platform.sh, it’s time to make your WordPress site itself ready to run on a Platform.sh environment.

Install the Config Reader

You can get all information about a deployed environment, including how to connect to services, through environment variables. Your app can access these variables.

The following examples use it, so install it through Composer if you haven’t already.

composer require platformsh/config-reader

`wp-config.php`

With the Configuration Reader library installed, add or update a wp-config.php file in the root of your repository to match the code below. In this file, the library’s Config object is used to:

Retrieve connection credentials for MariaDB through the database relationship to configure the WordPress database. This will set up the database automatically and avoid you having to set the connection yourself during the installer.
Use the project’s routes to set WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL settings.
Set all of WordPress’s security and authentication keys to the Platform.sh-provided PLATFORM_PROJECT_ENTROPY - a hashed variable specific to your repository consistent across environments.

Many other WordPress settings are pre-defined in this file for you, so consult the inline comments for more information.

<?php

use Platformsh\ConfigReader\Config;

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

// Create a new config object to ease reading the Platform.sh environment variables.
// You can alternatively use getenv() yourself.
$config = new Config();

// Set default scheme and hostname.
$site_scheme = 'http';
$site_host = 'localhost';

// Update scheme and hostname for the requested page.
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) {
  $site_host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
  $site_scheme = !empty($_SERVER['HTTPS']) ? 'https' : 'http';
}

if ($config->isValidPlatform()) {
	if ($config->hasRelationship('database')) {
		// This is where we get the relationships of our application dynamically
		// from Platform.sh.

		// Avoid PHP notices on CLI requests.
		if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli') {
			session_save_path("/tmp");
		}

		// Get the database credentials
		$credentials = $config->credentials('database');

		// We are using the first relationship called "database" found in your
		// relationships. Note that you can call this relationship as you wish
		// in your `.platform.app.yaml` file, but 'database' is a good name.
		define( 'DB_NAME', $credentials['path']);
		define( 'DB_USER', $credentials['username']);
		define( 'DB_PASSWORD', $credentials['password']);
		define( 'DB_HOST', $credentials['host']);
		define( 'DB_CHARSET', 'utf8' );
		define( 'DB_COLLATE', '' );

		// Check whether a route is defined for this application in the Platform.sh
		// routes. Use it as the site hostname if so (it is not ideal to trust HTTP_HOST).
		if ($config->routes()) {

			$routes = $config->routes();

			foreach ($routes as $url => $route) {
				if ($route['type'] === 'upstream' && $route['upstream'] === $config->applicationName) {

					// Pick the first hostname, or the first HTTPS hostname if one exists.
					$host = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_HOST);
					$scheme = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_SCHEME);
					if ($host !== false && (!isset($site_host) || ($site_scheme === 'http' && $scheme === 'https'))) {
						$site_host = $host;
						$site_scheme = $scheme ?: 'http';
					}
				}
			}
		}

		// Debug mode should be disabled on Platform.sh. Set this constant to true
		// in a wp-config-local.php file to skip this setting on local development.
		if (!defined( 'WP_DEBUG' )) {
			define( 'WP_DEBUG', false );
		}

		// Set all of the necessary keys to unique values, based on the Platform.sh
		// entropy value.
		if ($config->projectEntropy) {
			$keys = [
				'AUTH_KEY',
				'SECURE_AUTH_KEY',
				'LOGGED_IN_KEY',
				'NONCE_KEY',
				'AUTH_SALT',
				'SECURE_AUTH_SALT',
				'LOGGED_IN_SALT',
				'NONCE_SALT',
			];
			$entropy = $config->projectEntropy;
			foreach ($keys as $key) {
				if (!defined($key)) {
					define( $key, $entropy . $key );
				}
			}
		}
	}
}
else {
  // Local configuration file should be in project root.
  if (file_exists(dirname(__FILE__, 2) . '/wp-config-local.php')) {
    include(dirname(__FILE__, 2) . '/wp-config-local.php');
  }
}

// Do not put a slash "/" at the end.
// https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WP_HOME
define( 'WP_HOME', $site_scheme . '://' . $site_host );
// Do not put a slash "/" at the end.
// https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#WP_SITEURL
define( 'WP_SITEURL', WP_HOME );
define( 'WP_CONTENT_DIR', dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-content' );
define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', WP_HOME . '/wp-content' );

// Disable WordPress from running automatic updates
define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );

// Since you can have multiple installations in one database, you need a unique
// prefix.
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';

// Default PHP settings.
ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1);
ini_set('session.gc_divisor', 100);
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 200000);
ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 2000000);
ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 200000);
ini_set('pcre.recursion_limit', 200000);

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
  define( 'ABSPATH', dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/' );
}

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

Setting up Composer

Through this guide you will set up your WordPress repository to install everything during it’s build using Composer. That includes themes, plugins, and even WordPress Core itself. Any new plugins you want to use or migrate from your existing application can be committed as dependencies using Composer, but there are a few changes we need to make to the composer.json file to prepare it for the final Platform.sh environment.

First, the John Bloch script has a default wordpress installation directory, so the composer.json file needs to know that all new themes and plugins have a destination within that subdirectory.

  "extra": {
    "installer-paths": {
      "wordpress/wp-content/plugins/{$name}": [
        "type:wordpress-plugin"
      ],
      "wordpress/wp-content/themes/{$name}": [
        "type:wordpress-theme"
      ],
      "wordpress/wp-content/mu-plugins/{$name}": [
        "type:wordpress-muplugin"
      ]
    }
  }

Next, having placed wp-config.php in the root of your repository, you need to add a post-install-cmd to move the file into wordpress after composer install has finished.

  "scripts": {
    "copywpconfig": [
      "cp wp-config.php wordpress/"
    ],
    "post-install-cmd": "@copywpconfig"
  },

Since you’re likely using WPPackagist to download plugins and themes with Composer, you also need to add wpackagist.org as a repository in composer.json.

  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "https://wpackagist.org"
    }
  ]

Lastly, to prevent committing WordPress Core when it is installed via Composer, and to otherwise setup your local development environment, make sure that your .gitignore file includes everything in wordpress, as shown in the template.

Additional packages

Finally, install wp-cli and psy/psysh using Composer. With these packages included, the WordPress CLI is available when you SSH into the application container.

composer require wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle psy/psysh --ignore-platform-reqs

If you’ve installed the WordPress CLI as a dependency as in the previous step, you can use it directly. (As long as you have only wp-cli/wp-cli-bundle as a dependency and not wp-cli/wp-cli.)

Otherwise, commit the changes from composer and push. Then you can use the WordPress CLI within an application container from the vendor directory:

./vendor/bin/wp plugin list

If you receive an error stating This doesn't seem to be a WordPress installation., try providing the --path flag and point to your WordPress install path.

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