onion-press

A simple Docker Compose to run WordPress and Ghost as Onion Services

Prerequisites

You will need Docker and Docker Compose installed

Start

Running all services

To run all services (WordPress, Ghost, and the onion service):

docker compose up -d

Running only WordPress

To run only WordPress and the required services:

docker compose up -d wordpress

Running only Ghost

To run only Ghost and the required services:

docker compose up -d ghost

Verification

Verify the Tor bootstrap is done

docker compose logs onionize | grep "Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done"

Get the WordPress Onion hostname

docker exec onionize cat /var/lib/tor/onion_services/wordpress/hostname

Get the Ghost Onion hostname

docker exec onionize cat /var/lib/tor/onion_services/ghost/hostname

When you access the returned Onion URLs you should see:

• For WordPress: the WordPress initial setup page
• For Ghost: the Ghost initial setup page

You are done, you can start using both platforms as usual.

Components

This setup relies on Onionize Docker which allows you to expose any running container on your system as an Onion Service.

Other components in the docker-compose.yml are WordPress, Ghost, and MySQL services.