MediaWiki-Docker

This page contains recipes that can be used with MediaWiki core's Docker development environment.

docker-compose stacks can be extended with a  file that resides in the same directory (at the root of MediaWiki core, in our case) as the   file. Any configuration present in that file will override the defaults in. More documentation on overriding works is available at https://docs.docker.com/compose/extends/

After updating your override file, run  followed by.

Below is a complete override file that provides a Redis and ElasticSearch containers, along with overriding the user mapping and the XDebug configuration for the app container.

Disable XDebug for better performance
If you are not working on backend code or don't need to set breakpoints, you can use a Docker image that has XDebug disabled, which can boost performance.

Mail handling
You can capture outgoing email with MailHog. The mail interface is accessible at http://localhost:8025/