Title: Doesn’t work with simple Docker Compose example
Last modified: December 12, 2025

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# Doesn’t work with simple Docker Compose example

 *  Resolved [ianthemerciful](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianthemerciful/)
 * (@ianthemerciful)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-with-simple-docker-compose-example/)
 * Hey there, I’d really love to get this plugin to work, but I’m not having any
   luck.
 * Here’s a docker-compose.yml file:
 *     ```wp-block-code
       services:  minimal-db:    container_name: minimal-db    image: mysql:9    user: "1000:1000"    volumes:      - /Users/test/minimal-db/data:/var/lib/mysql    restart: always    environment:      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'sekrit'      MYSQL_DATABASE: wordpress      MYSQL_USER: wordpress      MYSQL_PASSWORD: wordpress    security_opt:      - seccomp=unconfined    healthcheck:      test: ["CMD", "mysqladmin", "ping", "-h", "localhost"]      timeout: 5s      retries: 10  minimal-wordpress:    container_name: minimal-wordpress    depends_on:      - minimal-db    ports:      - '8080:80'    image: wordpress:latest    user: "1000:1000"    restart: always    volumes:      - /Users/test/minimal-wordpress:/var/www/html/wp-content    environment:      WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: minimal-db      WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress      WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD: wordpress      WORDPRESS_DB_NAME: wordpress
       ```
   
 * If you run `docker-compose up`, MySQL and WordPress will boot up, and you can
   continue the simple installation flow. Then add the Simply Static plugin.
 * Diagnostics will show that the permalink structure is not set. I set it to `/%
   permalink%` (custom), and then reset the diagnostics. All diagnostics are then
   green.
 * After that the, the activity log is just blank. If I click “Generate,” nothing
   happens. If I refresh I can briefly see “Waiting for new export…” appear but 
   then disappear. Refreshing just changes the Pause/Cancel buttons back to “Generate”.
 * There are no HTTP errors in the browser dev tools. There are no errors in the
   Docker Compose log.
 * I’ve tried turning on Debug -> Use server-side cron job and running `curl -si
   http://localhost:8080/wp-cron.php`, but that doesn’t do anything either.
 * I even spent an hour with Cursor trying to inject PHP scripts and call functions
   directly. It tried to debug the queue, and even seemed to get an export working
   with my production site, but only 50/750 of the pages I needed were exported 
   and it couldn’t figure out why.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  Plugin Author [patrickposner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickposner/)
 * (@patrickposner)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-with-simple-docker-compose-example/#post-18753915)
 * Hey [@ianthemerciful](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianthemerciful/),
 * thanks for reaching out!
 * It looks like we still have some ways to go to get Cursor to pick up our documentation(
   it does work quite well already with ChatGPT, tho!)
 * There is a really quick fix for that described here: [https://docs.simplystatic.com/article/151-working-with-docker-environments](https://docs.simplystatic.com/article/151-working-with-docker-environments)
 *  Thread Starter [ianthemerciful](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianthemerciful/)
 * (@ianthemerciful)
 * [5 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-work-with-simple-docker-compose-example/#post-18758874)
 * Thanks, I appreciate the reply. I had tried all those tricks to no avail and 
   also pointed Cursor at those very docs. I was able to get a wget-based export
   solution working after hours of pain, but I’ll revisit Simply Static again for
   future sites.
    -  This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by [ianthemerciful](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianthemerciful/).
      Reason: spelling

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