bitnami/joomla
🛑 DEPRECATED Bitnami container image for Joomla!
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The Joomla! container is now deprecated. This image will no longer be released in our catalog, but already-released container images will persist in the registries.
After some months, this repository will be removed in favor of bitnami/joomla-archived where all existing images can be found.
Joomla! is an award winning open source CMS platform for building websites and applications. It includes page caching, page compression and Let's Encrypt auto-configuration support.
Overview of Joomla! Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/containers/main/bitnami/joomla/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d
Warning: This quick setup is only intended for development environments. You are encouraged to change the insecure default credentials and check out the available configuration options in the Environment Variables section for a more secure deployment.
Looking to use Joomla! in production? Try VMware Tanzu Application Catalog, the commercial edition of the Bitnami catalog.
Deploying Bitnami applications as Helm Charts is the easiest way to get started with our applications on Kubernetes. Read more about the installation in the Bitnami Joomla! Chart GitHub repository.
Bitnami containers can be used with Kubeapps for deployment and management of Helm Charts in clusters.
Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recommended for production environments. However, because they run as a non-root user, privileged tasks are typically off-limits. Learn more about non-root containers in our docs.
Dockerfile
linksLearn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags in our documentation page.
You can see the equivalence between the different tags by taking a look at the tags-info.yaml
file present in the branch folder, i.e bitnami/ASSET/BRANCH/DISTRO/tags-info.yaml
.
Subscribe to project updates by watching the bitnami/containers GitHub repo.
The recommended way to get the Bitnami Joomla! Docker Image is to pull the prebuilt image from the Docker Hub Registry.
docker pull bitnami/joomla:latest
To use a specific version, you can pull a versioned tag. You can view the list of available versions in the Docker Hub Registry.
docker pull bitnami/joomla:[TAG]
If you wish, you can also build the image yourself by cloning the repository, changing to the directory containing the Dockerfile and executing the docker build
command. Remember to replace the APP
, VERSION
and OPERATING-SYSTEM
path placeholders in the example command below with the correct values.
git clone https://github.com/bitnami/containers.git
cd bitnami/APP/VERSION/OPERATING-SYSTEM
docker build -t bitnami/APP:latest .
Joomla! requires access to a MySQL or MariaDB database to store information. We'll use the Bitnami Docker Image for MariaDB for the database requirements.
Using the Docker Command Line
docker network create joomla-network
$ docker volume create --name mariadb_data
docker run -d --name mariadb \
--env ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
--env MARIADB_USER=bn_joomla \
--env MARIADB_PASSWORD=bitnami \
--env MARIADB_DATABASE=bitnami_joomla \
--network joomla-network \
--volume mariadb_data:/bitnami/mariadb \
bitnami/mariadb:latest
$ docker volume create --name joomla_data
docker run -d --name joomla \
-p 8080:8080 -p 8443:8443 \
--env ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_USER=bn_joomla \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_PASSWORD=bitnami \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_joomla \
--network joomla-network \
--volume joomla_data:/bitnami/joomla \
bitnami/joomla:latest
Access your application at http://your-ip/
Run the application using Docker Compose
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/containers/main/bitnami/joomla/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose.yml
docker-compose up -d
Please be aware this file has not undergone internal testing. Consequently, we advise its use exclusively for development or testing purposes. For production-ready deployments, we highly recommend utilizing its associated Bitnami Helm chart.
If you detect any issue in the docker-compose.yaml
file, feel free to report it or contribute with a fix by following our Contributing Guidelines.
If you remove the container all your data will be lost, and the next time you run the image the database will be reinitialized. To avoid this loss of data, you should mount a volume that will persist even after the container is removed.
For persistence you should mount a directory at the /bitnami/joomla
path. If the mounted directory is empty, it will be initialized on the first run. Additionally you should mount a volume for persistence of the MariaDB data.
The above examples define the Docker volumes named mariadb_data and joomla_data. The Joomla! application state will persist as long as volumes are not removed.
To avoid inadvertent removal of volumes, you can mount host directories as data volumes. Alternatively you can make use of volume plugins to host the volume data.
Mount host directories as data volumes with Docker Compose
This requires a minor change to the docker-compose.yml
file present in this repository:
mariadb:
...
volumes:
- - 'mariadb_data:/bitnami/mariadb'
+ - /path/to/mariadb-persistence:/bitnami/mariadb
...
joomla:
...
volumes:
- - 'joomla_data:/bitnami/joomla'
+ - /path/to/joomla-persistence:/bitnami/joomla
...
-volumes:
- mariadb_data:
- driver: local
- joomla_data:
- driver: local
NOTE: As this is a non-root container, the mounted files and directories must have the proper permissions for the UID
1001
.
Mount host directories as data volumes using the Docker command line
docker network create joomla-network
docker run -d --name mariadb \
--env ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
--env MARIADB_USER=bn_joomla \
--env MARIADB_PASSWORD=bitnami \
--env MARIADB_DATABASE=bitnami_joomla \
--network joomla-network \
--volume /path/to/mariadb-persistence:/bitnami/mariadb \
bitnami/mariadb:latest
docker run -d --name joomla \
-p 8080:8080 -p 8443:8443 \
--env ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_USER=bn_joomla \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_PASSWORD=bitnami \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_joomla \
--network joomla-network \
--volume /path/to/joomla-persistence:/bitnami/joomla \
bitnami/joomla:latest
Customizable environment variables
Name | Description | Default Value |
---|---|---|
JOOMLA_DATA_TO_PERSIST | Files to persist relative to the Joomla! installation directory. To provide multiple values, separate them with a whitespace. | $JOOMLA_BASE_DIR |
JOOMLA_LOAD_SAMPLE_DATA | Load Joomla sample data. | yes |
JOOMLA_SKIP_BOOTSTRAP | Whether to perform initial bootstrapping for the application. | nil |
JOOMLA_USERNAME | Joomla! user name. | user |
JOOMLA_PASSWORD | Joomla! user password. | bitnami |
JOOMLA_EMAIL | Joomla! user e-mail address. | user@example.com |
JOOMLA_SITE_NAME | Joomla! site name | $JOOMLA_DEFAULT_SITE_NAME |
JOOMLA_SECRET | Secret value for data encryption (auto-generated if not provided) | nil |
JOOMLA_SMTP_HOST | Joomla! SMTP server host. | nil |
JOOMLA_SMTP_PORT_NUMBER | Joomla! SMTP server port number. | nil |
JOOMLA_SMTP_USER | Joomla! SMTP server user. | nil |
JOOMLA_SMTP_PASSWORD | Joomla! SMTP server user password. | nil |
JOOMLA_SMTP_PROTOCOL | Joomla! SMTP server protocol. | nil |
JOOMLA_SMTP_SENDER_EMAIL | Joomla! SMTP Sender email. | nil |
JOOMLA_SMTP_SENDER_NAME | Joomla! SMTP Sender name. | nil |
JOOMLA_DEFAULT_DATABASE_PORT_NUMBER | Database server port. | 3306 |
JOOMLA_DATABASE_HOST | Database server host. | $JOOMLA_DEFAULT_DATABASE_HOST |
JOOMLA_DATABASE_PORT_NUMBER | Database server port. | $JOOMLA_DEFAULT_DATABASE_PORT_NUMBER |
JOOMLA_DATABASE_NAME | Database name. | bitnami_joomla |
JOOMLA_DATABASE_USER | Database user name. | bn_joomla |
JOOMLA_DATABASE_PASSWORD | Database user password. | nil |
Read-only environment variables
Name | Description | Value |
---|---|---|
JOOMLA_BASE_DIR | Joomla! installation directory. | ${BITNAMI_ROOT_DIR}/joomla |
JOOMLA_TMP_DIR | Joomla! installation directory. | ${JOOMLA_BASE_DIR}/tmp |
JOOMLA_LOGS_DIR | Joomla! installation directory. | ${JOOMLA_BASE_DIR}/logs |
JOOMLA_CONF_FILE | Configuration file for Joomla!. | ${JOOMLA_BASE_DIR}/configuration.php |
JOOMLA_VOLUME_DIR | Joomla! directory for persisted data files. | ${BITNAMI_VOLUME_DIR}/joomla |
JOOMLA_DEFAULT_SITE_NAME | Joomla! default site name | My site |
JOOMLA_DEFAULT_DATABASE_HOST | Default database server host. | mariadb |
PHP_DEFAULT_MEMORY_LIMIT | Default PHP memory limit. | 256M |
When you start the Joomla! image, you can adjust the configuration of the instance by passing one or more environment variables either on the docker-compose file or on the docker run
command line. If you want to add a new environment variable:
docker-compose.yml
file present in this repository:joomla:
...
environment:
- JOOMLA_PASSWORD=my_password
...
For manual execution add a --env
option with each variable and value:
docker run -d --name joomla -p 80:8080 -p 443:8443 \
--env JOOMLA_PASSWORD=my_password \
--network joomla-tier \
--volume /path/to/joomla-persistence:/bitnami \
bitnami/joomla:latest
Example
This would be an example of SMTP configuration using a Gmail account:
docker-compose.yml
file present in this repository: joomla:
...
environment:
- JOOMLA_DATABASE_USER=bn_joomla
- JOOMLA_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_joomla
- ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes
- JOOMLA_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
- JOOMLA_SMTP_PORT=587
- JOOMLA_SMTP_USER=your_email@gmail.com
- JOOMLA_SMTP_PASSWORD=your_password
- JOOMLA_SMTP_PROTOCOL=tls
...
For manual execution:
docker run -d --name joomla -p 80:8080 -p 443:8443 \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_USER=bn_joomla \
--env JOOMLA_DATABASE_NAME=bitnami_joomla \
--env JOOMLA_SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com \
--env JOOMLA_SMTP_PORT=587 \
--env JOOMLA_SMTP_USER=your_email@gmail.com \
--env JOOMLA_SMTP_PASSWORD=your_password \
--env JOOMLA_SMTP_PROTOCOL=tls \
--network joomla-tier \
--volume /path/to/joomla-persistence:/bitnami \
bitnami/joomla:latest
Installing additional language packs
By default, this container packs a generic English version of Joomla!. Nevertheless, more Language Packs can be added to the default configuration using the in-platform Administration interface. In order to fully support a new Language Pack it is also a requirement to update the system's locales files. We highly recommend extending the default image and adding as many locales as needed: +Stop the currently running container using the command
FROM bitnami/joomla
RUN echo "es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen && locale-gen
Bear in mind that in the example above es_ES.UTF-8 UTF-8
is the locale needed for the desired Language Pack to install. You may change this value to the locale corresponding to your pack.
The Bitnami Joomla! Docker image sends the container logs to stdout
. To view the logs:
docker logs joomla
Or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose logs joomla
You can configure the containers logging driver using the --log-driver
option if you wish to consume the container logs differently. In the default configuration docker uses the json-file
driver.
Backing up your container
To backup your data, configuration and logs, follow these simple steps:
docker stop joomla
Or using Docker Compose:
docker-compose stop joomla
We need to mount two volumes in a container we will use to create the backup: a directory on your host to store the backup in, and the volumes from the container we just stopped so we can access the data.
docker run --rm -v /path/to/joomla-backups:/backups --volumes-from joomla busybox \
cp -a /bitnami/joomla /backups/latest
Restoring a backup
Restoring a backup is as simple as mounting the backup as volumes in the containers.
For the MariaDB database container:
$ docker run -d --name mariadb \
...
- --volume /path/to/mariadb-persistence:/bitnami/mariadb \
+ --volume /path/to/mariadb-backups/latest:/bitnami/mariadb \
bitnami/mariadb:latest
For the Joomla! container:
$ docker run -d --name joomla \
...
- --volume /path/to/joomla-persistence:/bitnami/joomla \
+ --volume /path/to/joomla-backups/latest:/bitnami/joomla \
bitnami/joomla:latest
Upgrade this image
NOTE: Application upgrades should be done manually inside the docker container following the official documentation. As an alternative, you can try upgrading using an updated Docker image. However, any data from the Joomla! container will be lost and you will have to reinstall all the plugins and themes you manually added.
Bitnami provides up-to-date versions of MariaDB and Joomla!, including security patches, soon after they are made upstream. We recommend that you follow these steps to upgrade your container. We will cover here the upgrade of the Joomla! container. For the MariaDB upgrade see: https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/mariadb#upgrade-this-image
docker pull bitnami/joomla:latest
Stop the currently running container using the command
docker-compose stop joomla
Follow the steps in Backing up your container to take a snapshot of the current application state.
Remove the currently running container by executing the following command:
docker-compose rm -v joomla
Update the image tag in docker-compose.yml
and re-create your container with the new image:
docker-compose up -d
The Bitnami Joomla! Docker image is designed to be extended so it can be used as the base image for your custom web applications.
Extend this image
Before extending this image, please note there are certain configuration settings you can modify using the original image:
APACHE_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER
and APACHE_HTTPS_PORT_NUMBER
respectively.If your desired customizations cannot be covered using the methods mentioned above, extend the image. To do so, create your own image using a Dockerfile with the format below:
FROM bitnami/joomla
### Put your customizations below
...
Here is an example of extending the image with the following modifications:
vim
editorFROM bitnami/joomla
### Change user to perform privileged actions
USER 0
### Install 'vim'
RUN install_packages vim
### Revert to the original non-root user
USER 1001
### Enable mod_ratelimit module
RUN sed -i -r 's/#LoadModule ratelimit_module/LoadModule ratelimit_module/' /opt/bitnami/apache/conf/httpd.conf
### Modify the ports used by Apache by default
## It is also possible to change these environment variables at runtime
ENV APACHE_HTTP_PORT_NUMBER=8181
ENV APACHE_HTTPS_PORT_NUMBER=8143
EXPOSE 8181 8143
Based on the extended image, you can update the docker-compose.yml
file present in this repository to add other features:
joomla:
- image: bitnami/joomla:latest
+ build: .
ports:
- - '80:8080'
- - '443:8443'
+ - '80:8181'
+ - '443:8143'
environment:
...
+ - PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT=512m
...
Note: the README for this image is longer than the DockerHub length limit of 25000, so has been trimmed. The full README can be found at https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/joomla/README.md