WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA is not evaluated

[juliankrieger]

I've read #557 , #332 and #142 because the content of my WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA file does not seem to be evaluated. To check for this, I throw fatal errors in the code that should normally be evaluated, but I can see no such error in my error logs. Is this behaviour broken again?

Things I tried:

• Deleting my images and rebuilding them entirely
• Opening a terminal into my wordpress-blog container and deleting wp-config

Docker-Compose File:

version: '3.4'

x-common-variables: &common-variables
 FSHM_HOST: *******
 MYSQL_DATABASE: *******
 MYSQL_USER: ******
 MYSQL_PASSWORD: ******
 MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ******
 WORDPRESS_TABLE_PREFIX: *******
 WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db
 DEVELOPMENT_DATABASE: ********
 DEVELOPMENT: true

services:

 wordpress:
 depends_on:
 - db 
 container_name: wordpress-blog
 image: wordpress
 restart: always
 ports:
 - 80:80
 environment:
 <<: *common-variables
 WORDPRESS_DB_USER: ******
 WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: *******
 WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: *******
 WORDPRESS_DB_CHARSET: utf8
 WORDPRESS_DB_COLLATE: ''
 WORDPRESS_AUTH_KEY: ******
 WORDPRESS_SECURE_AUTH_KEY: *******
 WORDPRESS_LOGGED_IN_KEY: ******
 WORDPRESS_NONCE_KEY: ******
 WORDPRESS_AUTH_SALT: *****
 WORDPRESS_SECURE_AUTH_SALT: ******
 WORDPRESS_LOGGED_IN_SALT: ******
 WORDPRESS_NONCE_SALT: ******
 WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA: |
 $$is_development = getenv_docker('DEVELOPMENT', false) == 'true' ? true : false;
 trigger_error("$$is_development", E_USER_ERROR); // just to check if evaluation works in the first place
 if($$is_development) {
 define('WORDPRESS_DB_NAME', getenv_docker('DEVELOPMENT_DATABASE', 'fsweb_development'));
 }
 volumes:
 - type: bind
 source: ./wordpress/wp-content
 target: /var/www/html/wp-content
 tmpfs:
 - /tmp
 - /run

 db: 
 container_name: mysql-db
 image: mysql:5.7
 restart: always
 environment: *common-variables
 volumes:
 - type: bind
 source: ./database_content/mysql
 target: /var/lib/mysql

[hexclann]

@juliankrieger how did you fix it?

[MorgusLethe]

I also added this variable and recreated my container, and echo $WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA from bash confirms that it is set (returns define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true); ), but there is no such line in my wp-config.php. I also confirmed that my wp-config.php is not part of any docker volume, so this file should be rebuilt when I recreate the container. What am I missing?

EDIT: I expected that the variable's value will be entered verbatim in the wp-config.php file, as described in the link that is present on the docker hub wordpress page. This link is misleading (out of date) and I think it should be removed. If anyone else gets to this point from googling the issue, the code that is in "WORDPRESS_CONFIG_EXTRA" is just evaluated, and is not added to the wp-config.php file.

[tianon]

Doh yep, that's a result of #557

https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/822fa3726b041120f108d331e56ee7a412a4f193/wordpress/content.md#L24 would be the appropriate place to update that wording if someone wanted to take a stab at it 👀