{{tag>docker mediawiki}}

====== MediaWiki inside Docker container ======
===== Create root web folder =====

  mkdir /var/www/mediawiki && chown -R www-data /var/www/mediawiki

===== Download image and run it =====

  docker run --name my-mediawiki -v /var/www/mediawiki:/var/www/data -v /var/www/mediawiki/images:/var/www/html/images -p 8080:80 -d mediawiki


With -v we are binding the host folders ///var/www/mediawiki// and ///var/www/mediawiki/images// to container so the content persists on upgrade/container deletion.

Run the installation wizard and at the end and copy the LocalSettings.php file to ///var/www/mediawiki.
Bind LocalSettings.php// to container and rerun it

We can't do this in the step above because binded volumes are always created as directories. This enables us to easier make modifications by editing ''LocalSettings.php'' on the host server instead of copying the modified ''LocalSettings.php'' to container via ''docker cp LocalSettings.php my-mediawiki:/var/www/html'' command.

===== So stop and remove the container now =====


  docker stop mediawiki && docker rm mediawiki

and rerun the run command this time adding the bind for LocalSettings.php file

  docker run --name my-mediawiki -v /var/www/mediawiki:/var/www/data -v /var/www/mediawiki/images:/var/www/html/images -v /var/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php:/var/www/html/LocalSettings.php -p 8080:80 -d mediawiki


====== See also ======
  * [[wiki:docker_commands|Docker commands]]
  * [[Enable various filetype uploads to MediaWiki]]
  * [[Lock down Mediawiki]]
====== References ======
  * https://hub.docker.com/_/mediawiki
  *     https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki