I set off today with a mission to set up a mediawiki instance to use for keeping track of some worldbuilding stuff for the Kirai (and associated cultures) (kinda like I had previously done with a different fictional culture, the Valiri), and, well, I haven't succeeded, but I have got my little bit of the network here on the 10.0.0.0/8 subnet and I'm actually updating my computer for the first time in a while (I mean, I'm going from kernel 5.8.10 to 5.9.2)
If you're wondering why I switched my network to 10.0.0.0/8, I was having issues with a VM server redirecting to 24.0.0.0/8 from 192.168.0.0/24, and I didn't realize that that was because of the mediawiki config, so I thought that maybe making that change would help. It didn't. And now I'm too lazy to change it back. Besides, it helps keep the stuff on my wifi network separate from the stuff on mom's, since my network pulls from hers (because signal's weak in this corner of the house)
Anyways, I tried using docker, but that was tricky, then I tried using docker-compose, but that was throwing exceptions, so I tried rebooting, then I thought that maybe I should actually update my system, since I'd just been doing partial upgrades to get stuff installed. So, now I'm doing gigabytes worth of upgrades that I've been putting off. Honestly, I'm not confident this will solve the docker-compose issues
And I tried using my existing server, but it's out of date. I had a spare mediawiki 1.30 install, but that wouldn't work with a template I was trying to import from wikipedia, so instead I tried upgrading to 1.35, but I can't get my Linux Mint install to update PHP past 7.0.x, and I need at least 7.3.x. So, I was gonna just use 1.31, but then I noticed the stuff on using docker, and I thought I'd try that, since I have docker installed on my laptop.
UPDATE: I have successfully gotten my mediawiki docker image set up and running! It only took me 10 hours... :P
Anyways, long story short, I've gotten nothing done today, but at least it's not as bad as that time I decided I was going to start writing a novel for NaNoWriMo and ended up installing Arch Linux instead.