Local craft database

A docker-compose setup for quickly setting up a local copy of a Craft database.

What this project is not

This project does not provide means for pushing database changes back up to production. The reason for this is that it is easy to overwrite someone's work when pushing to production while others are editing.

Getting started

Prerequisites:

• Docker compose
• Mysql command line utilities. Installed with brew install mysql on Mac.

1. git clone project.
2. Make a copy of .env-example and name it .env. Complete the .env file with database credentials for the database that you want to copy from.
3. Run ./download-prod.sh to download a copy of the prod database and place it inside the db-dump folder
4. run docker-compose up in the project root to start a local mysql database connected to port 3306. It will automatically load the downloaded sql dump into a database called craft_cms. For more info see the docker-compose.yml file.

When docker is fully up and running you can connect to this database with a connections string like so:

mysql://root:[email protected]:3306/craft_cms

Troubleshooting

• Stale data? Use docker-compose down before running docker-compose up to ensure that the database is fully reset.