A proof of concept, the main branch is WordPress running on top of MariaDB served by PHP-FPM 8.1 behind Caddy, on Docker containers.

Alternative ways:

1. the sqlite branch removes MariaDB as dependencies.
2. the php-builtin-server branch also removes Docker and the webserver as dependencies, running wp on top of PHP only.

Setup:

• Copy wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and make changes to the salts and database info.
• Copy composer-sample.json to composer.json and add your required plugins/themes.
• Copy .env-sample to .env and update all the values.
• run docker-compose up --build to create the containers
• open https://localhost and accept the security warning, follow the installation to get a working WP install.

Known issues:

• no object cache plugin and container
• no full page caching (I recommend Surge)
• no webserver request caching

Why:

This is an intermediate step for WordPress as an app platform to be feasable.