Specify URL rather than auto-populated the Wordpress address and Site address

[natea]

It would be nice if the site URL could be specified during creation, rather than auto-populated. You can see that it's included the port 49166, but I want it to answer on port 80. Until I removed the :49166 in the Wordpress admin, it was forwarding the requests from port 80 to port 49166, and this is what was showing up in the URL bar in my browser.

[jbfink]

Hey @natea, somehow I totally missed you posting this. Yeah, I have wrestled with the (imho) totally dumb requirement Wordpress has to hardcode a URL/port and I'm still not exactly sure how to do it. Something in the script to wait for input and ask for a URL maybe? What do you think?

[lautreamont3]

Not an expert but I think that WP stores in database what you send to him (if it has a port number he stores port number) so if you in command line specify port (-p 80:80) then container get new IP adress (0.0.0.0). Just add to your /etc/hosts something like:
0.0.0.0 my_wp_site.dev
and you can reach WP with http://my_wp_site.dev and that goes to database.

[jbfink]

Wouldn't adding 0.0.0.0 in /etc/hosts cause problems? It's the broadcast address, so I'd think there'd be a danger of having everything redirect to my_wp_site.dev?

[lautreamont3]

I was just pointing simple way for addressing problem. Give container fixed address and give fixed address simbolic name.
Since 6.5 its posible to set port -p 127.0.0.1:80:80 so you could add 127.0.0.1 my_wp_site.dev to /etc/hosts or just use localhost.