mediawiki-administration-examples

1. Clone this repository
2. Clone mediawiki into a mediawiki directory located in the same directory as the files from this repository
3. In that mediawiki directory, check out the version of MediaWiki that you want, and run git submodule update --init --recursive
4. Go back up one level in the file structure to the clone of this repository
5. Run docker compose up -d
6. Run docker compose exec mediawiki bash
7. In the container, start mysql by running service mysql start
8. In the container, start varnish by running varnishd -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl
9. In the container, start apache by running apache2ctl start
10. Visit the wiki at http://localhost:80/wiki/

The first time you launch the wiki, you also need to set it up

1. Go through the installation screens, using 127.0.0.1 as the database host and TheRootPassword as the root database password
2. Download the resulting settings file and place it at mediawiki/LocalSettings.php