I currently host a couple small wikis for worldbuilding information, but the hosting provider for that is going down in a few months, so I’m looking for ways to self host what I got.
I’ve never self hosted with Mediawiki before so this is brand new to me, I’ve already spent a couple hours messing around with Docker but haven’t gotten too far into that. OS is Manjaro/Endeavour Linux between two systems.
Not necessarily looking to host it online immediately to start with, though in the future I’d like to do so when I can get the proper hardware preparations for it, but for now I just want to host it locally to get it set up.
Okay, so far I got it running which is good, however when installing extensions, I need to run php update, but when I try to run that I get this error
“Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBConnectionError from line 1477 of /path to/Mediawiki/tanzwiki/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php: Cannot access the database: No database connection (unknown)”
I figure it had something to do with the sqldataqbase, but trying to back that up only lead to it’s own dead end.