Jumpstarter

This is a plugin for WordPress installations in a Jumpstarter container environment. The main purpose is to combat the problems one encounters when running WordPress in a container environment under nginx behind multiple http proxy layers.

The plugin is divided into two distinct parts.

1. The installer/environment synchronizer (js-init.php).
2. The actual plugin (jumpstarter.php).

The installer

The installer takes care of the following:

1. Install WordPress if /app/code/wp-db does not exist.
2. Sync the /app/env.json and /app/code/wp-env.json environments with WordPress.

Install is done the following way:

1. Configure security salts in wp-config.php if not done already.
2. Clean up previous failed or aborted installations.
3. Install WordPress to RAM (in /tmp) to get rid of waiting for disk sync.
4. Activating core plugins (jumpstarter and sqlite-integration).
5. Setting the theme specified in wp-env.json.
6. Run WordPress install hooks registered with add_action("jumpstarter_install",...).
7. Atomically move the database in place. This allows the install to be idempotent.
8. Restart by execve’ing itself so environment sync can run.

Environment sync is done the following way:

1. Setting nginx fastcgi_param HTTPS to “on”/”off” depending on configured domains for the container.
2. Opening and parsing /app/code/wp-env.json.
3. If the siteurl has changed it performs a safe search/replace of siteurl in wp_posts, wp_postmeta and wp_options.
4. Set theme specified in theme if not changed by the user.
5. Update options specified in options.
6. Opening and parsing /app/env.json.
7. Update user details if they are admin default.
8. Call the hook jumpstarter_sync_env to let themes/plugins modify database state depending on the env.

It also prints logging and error information to stderr.

The plugin

The plugin takes care of the following:

• Sandboxes all users and overrides any user capabilities defined in /app/code/wp-env.json.
• Injects a login link to support Jumpstarter reflected login on /wp-login.php.
• Handles login requests from Jumpstarter by authenticating posts of jumpstarter-auth-token. On successful authentication the user is logged in as the admin user.
• Hooks in on set_url_scheme and uses the env to determine if the url should use http or https.
• Disables the possibility to delete the theme that’s specified in the wp env.
• Rewrites urls passed to wp_enqueue_script and wp_enqueue_style depending on if SSL is on or not.