MediaWiki docker image for dokku

TODO

• supports linked database (via DATABASE_URL)
• supports linked redis (via REDIS_URL)
• supports linked smtp (via SMTP_URL)
• supports linked memcached

Usage

Currently this can only be used via a Dockerfile dokku deployment

Deployment

# create an app
dokku apps:create mediawiki

# set the environment (only required for non-dev envs)
dokku config:set mediawiki environment=production

## Add Persistent storage (for uploads)

# create storage for the app
sudo mkdir -p  /host/location/mediawiki

# ensure the dokku user has access to this directory
sudo chown -R dokku:dokku /host/location/mediawiki

# mount the directory into your app
dokku storage:mount mediawiki /host/location/mediawiki:/data

## Add database
# Create a mariadb service with environment variables
dokku mariadb:create mediawiki

# Link the mariadb service to the app
dokku mariadb:link mediawiki mediawiki

# Start a previously stopped mariadb service
dokku mariadb:start mediawiki

Env variables

When starting the following vars are required:

MEDIAWIKI_ADMIN_USER
MEDIAWIKI_ADMIN_PASS

This creates an admin user and also uses this user to perform database maintenance on restart.

The following vars can be used to change some behaviour:

MEDIAWIKI_ENABLE_REDIS_JOBQUEUE