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Unable to use vi editor in wordpress container

I have been struggling to use vi editor in WordPress container (on Kubernetes) to edit a file wp-config.php I am currently using this helm chart of WordPress from Artifactub: https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/bitnami/wordpress

Image: docker.io/bitnami/wordpress:6.1.1-debian-11-r1

These are the errors I'm getting when trying to edit the wp-config.php inside the pod with either vi or vim

# vi wp-config.php

bash: vi: command not found

When I tried installing the vi, I get this error:

apt-get install vi

# Error
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

Then I tried by first ssh-ing into the node hosting the WordPress pod, then exec into the container using docker with sudo privileges as shown below:

docker exec -it -u root <containerID> /bin/bash

I then tried installing the vi editor in the container by still getting this same error

The content I want to add to the wp-config.php is the following. It's a plugin requirement so that I can be able to store media files right into my AWS S3 bucket:

define('SSU_PROVIDER', 'aws');
define('SSU_BUCKET', 'my-bucket');
define('SSU_FOLDER', 'my-folder');

Can I run the command like this:

helm install my-wordpress bitnami/wordpress \
  --set mariadb.enabled=false \
  --set externalDatabase.host=my-host \
  --set externalDatabase.user=my-user \
  --set externalDatabase.password=my-password \
  --set externalDatabase.database=mydb \
  --set wordpressExtraConfigContent="define('SSU_PROVIDER', 'aws');define('SSU_BUCKET', 'my-bucket');define('SSU_FOLDER', 'my-folder');"
Solution

  • The Fix for me after a marathon of different options was just to use a plugin to sync my media files with my AWS s3 bucket. There was literally no way for me to be able to do any function with the bitnami wordpress container. Can't edit nor install any edition (vi/vim/nano). It was locked and I didn't want to edit and build from their base image because we had running wordpress applications on a k8s cluster

    This is the plugin that I used media cloud