Run wikimedia with mysql on Docker

docker-compose.yml

version: '2'
services:
  mediawiki:
    image: wikimedia/mediawiki
    links:
      - mysql
    environment:
      - MEDIAWIKI_DB_TYPE=mysql
      - MEDIAWIKI_DB_USER=root
      - MEDIAWIKI_DB_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword
      - MEDIAWIKI_RESTBASE_URL=http://mediawiki-node-services.docker:7231/localhost/v1
    volumes:
      - /local/data/dir:/data:rw
  mysql:
    image: mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword

wikimedia-mysql-docker.md

Run wikimedia with mysql on Docker

This gist intends to summurize my attempt to run wikimedia using Docker.

docker run --name mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d mysql
docker run --name test-wikimedia --link mysql -v /local/data/dir:/data:rw \
-e MEDIAWIKI_RESTBASE_URL=http://mediawiki-node-services.docker:7231/localhost/v1 -d wikimedia/mediawiki

Then, connect on http://172.17.0.3/. You may need to wait a little before succeeding to get the wikimedia page. During the configuration of the wikimedia, you will be asked for the MySQL Database host which is 172.17.0.2. In the end of the configuration, copy LocalSettings.php to /local/data/dir/.

Instead of running the two docker commands, we could also use docker-compose. The file docker-compose.yml should be in a folder. Go into the folder and run docker-compose.