Comments on: Personal MediaWiki with Raspberry PI and Docker

By: peppe8o

peppe8o — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:16:53 +0000

Hi Sunil,
you’re right, the dash between docker and compose was a typo error from me (the old docker compose was requiring it, with the latest docker installations you don’t need it).
Regarding the backup, it should be enought to keep a copy of the data from the volumes mapped in the docker-compose.yml file. If you can run mediawiki into a different raspberry pi (or a different microSD card) keeping the data in the two volumes you should be able to recreate the same mediawiki website with all the old data

By: Sunil Chauhan

Sunil Chauhan — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:30:09 +0000

Great tutorial, this one work despite the many I tried to use.
Couple of observations:

Observation 1:
The following didn’t work for me:
docker-compose up -d
So I had to remove the dash and this worked:
docker-compose up -d

Observation 2:
The database password does not accept anything with special characters. It’s really strange.

Finally, are you able to create a guide on how to backup and restore? This will be the final piece in the puzzle and allow me to migrate to this solution.

By: peppe8o

peppe8o — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 06:40:03 +0000

In reply to TZiegler. Hi, thank you for your feedback. From the linked tutorial you probably missed the part about installing docker compose. In any case, the new docker versions already include the compose option (without the dash character), so you should be able to use the following command: docker compose up -d Please let me know if this works

By: TZiegler

TZiegler — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:06:20 +0000

Tried today to use the manual. Unfortunately my pi says „unknown command“ when I try to run the command „docker-compose up -d“. But its up to date.

By: peppe8o

peppe8o — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 14:47:59 +0000

In reply to Matt. Thank you for your feedback, Matt. Glad it helped you too!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:24:26 +0000

Finally a docker tutorial for Mediawiki that actually works!!! I’ve tried several others and they all bombed at some point. I’m new to all this stuff, so I don’t have the skills to troubleshoot and fix what the issue is. This worked perfectly other than when I uncommented the line for the LocalSettings.php file it crashed until I figured out I had to make the dash at the beginning line up with the one in the active line above it. Thank you very much!

Oh, and I’m not even doing this on a Pi but in a VPS but it worked just fine.

By: peppe8o

peppe8o — Tue, 03 May 2022 15:01:06 +0000

In reply to Guru. You are welcome!

By: Guru

Guru — Tue, 03 May 2022 13:55:47 +0000

In reply to peppe8o. Yes the fix works. Thank you for your quick help!

By: peppe8o

peppe8o — Sun, 01 May 2022 06:41:50 +0000

In reply to Guru.

Hi Guru,
Please double check my tutorial on MariaDB dockerfile. The last rows are recently changed to:

RUN /etc/init.d/mariadb start && mysql -uroot –password=”” -e “source /mysql_scripts/mySqlScript.sql”
CMD /etc/init.d/mariadb start && tail -f /dev/null

This should solve the issue. I’m going to update this page too

By: Guru

Guru — Sun, 01 May 2022 06:08:07 +0000

In reply to peppe8o.

The instructions are very clear and got almost to the end. I too ran into the same error as Ralf experienced.
Below is screen capture:
Building database
Step 1/7 : FROM debian
—> f8dd32c4c981
Step 2/7 : RUN apt update && apt install mariadb-server -y
—> Using cache
—> 45ee198599ba
Step 3/7 : RUN sed -i ‘s/bind-address/bind-address = 0.0.0.0 #/i’ /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf
—> Using cache
—> 633b054a856f
Step 4/7 : RUN mkdir /mysql_scripts
—> Using cache
—> e08b5b733efa
Step 5/7 : COPY mySqlScript.sql /mysql_scripts/
—> Using cache
—> 9569bb081dcd
Step 6/7 : RUN /etc/init.d/mysql start && mysql -uroot –password=”” -e “source /mysql_scripts/mySqlScript.sql”
—> Running in 6562827a2280
/bin/sh: 1: /etc/init.d/mysql: not found
ERROR: Service ‘database’ failed to build: The command ‘/bin/sh -c /etc/init.d/mysql start && mysql -uroot –password=”” -e “source /mysql_scripts/mySqlScript.sql”‘ returned a non-zero code: 127

Appreciate your help in advance.