ACore CMS

ACore CMS based on WordPress

• Requirements
• Usage
• Connect the CMS to AzerothCore server and enable the shop
• Connect the CMS to AcoreDocker and enable the shop

Useful tutorials:

• How to restrict the access with credentials of a specific web page

Requirements

• Docker & docker-compose
• Nodejs & npm

If you do not have docker, install it.

On a Linux distro, you can install it via package manager, in a debian-based for example you can just run:

$ sudo apt install docker docker-compose

About Nodejs & npm, you can install it from here.

Usage

Docker container

If you installed the requirements, open your command prompt terminal (on Windows is for example PowerShell), navigate to the repository folder and issue the command:

docker compose up

It will download the related dependencies of the containers and start the acore-cms, next time you will need to just start the acore cms you can use:

$ npm run docker:start

Now you can see the website in http://localhost:80/.

Make sure that your port 80 is not already used by another service like Apache2, nginx etc.

If you want to change the port, you can change it from .env through the parameter DOCKER_HTTP_PORTS and DOCKER_HTTPS_PORTS.

Example:

DOCKER_HTTP_PORTS=8080:80
DOCKER_HTTPS_PORTS=443:443

The env variables above are used to configure the ports within the docker-compose file. To understand how port configurations work in docker-compose, please take a look at the official documentation

Note: if you change this after the wordpress installation remember to change also the siteurl and related wordpress parameters in wp_options table.

WARNING: if you run this in production, comment the phpmyadmin section in docker-compose to not expose the phpmyadmin service to any user or change the mysql credentials

More info about docker-configuration are available below

AzerothCore integration

ACore CMS is designed to work with AzerothCore. The ac-network included in our docker-compose file is a network that connects the AzerothCore server with the CMS. This network can be flagged as external which means that you need an azerothcore server spinned up using its own docker-compose file to make it work. If you are using azerothcore with the docker-compose file provided by us, you can running acore-cms with docker by setting DOCKER_AC_NETWORK_EXTERNAL to true in the .env file.

Please check this guide: Connect the CMS to AcoreDocker and enable the shop

CLI commands available

$ npm run docker:start

Run the docekr webservice in foreground mode

$ npm run docker:start:d

Run the docker webservice in background (deamon)

$ npm run docker:shell

Run the docker webservice in background and open a bash shell inside the container

$ npm run docker:remove

Remove all created containers and their volumes

$ npm run docker:stop

Stop all running containers

$ npm run docker:logs

Show the logs of the running containers

$ npm run docker:db:export

Export the mysql database of the current wordpress installation inside the /data/sql folder (backup)

$ npm run docker:db:import

Import the sql files under /data/sql folder inside the mysql database of the current wordpress installation (restore backup)

Configure docker

If you need to change some docker configuration (such as the exposed port or the configuration paths) you can create an .env within the root of this project. This file is git-ignored and will be used by docker-compose to set some internal variables to configure the containers. The available configurations are available at the end of the .env.docker file where you can find some commented variables that you can copy/paste within the just created .env file and uncomment them to set them up.

Using docker-compose.override.yml to extend the default one

If the .env variables that we provide are not enough for your configuration needs, you can always use the official “docker-compose override” strategy.

We’ve provided a sample docker-compose.override.yml file within the /data/ directory that includes a phpmyadmin container. You can copy/paste that file within the root directory of this project (it is git-ignored) and configure it as you prefer. Make sure to read the official docker-compose documentation first to exactly understand how to use it.

How to export/import database with the integrated tool

Acore-cms integrates a script under /apps/db_exporter folder that helps you to export the entire database in a SQL dump format. This script uses the /conf/dist/conf.sh file to configure the db credentials. If you need to change those configurations, you can just copy/paste that file inside the /conf/ folder to override default values (the files in that directory are git-ignored).

NOTE: by default sql files will be exported inside the /data/sql folder

database export

npm run docker:db:export

database import

npm run docker:db:import