Docker: Container keeps on restarting again on again

Question

I today deployed an instance of MediaWiki using the appcontainers/mediawiki docker image, and I now have a new problem for which I cannot find any clue. After trying to atta

Answer 1

The docker logs command will show you the output a container is generating when you don't run it interactively. This is likely to include the error message.

docker logs --tail 50 --follow --timestamps mediawiki_web_1

You can also run a fresh container in the foreground with docker run -ti to see what that does. You may need to map some config from your docker-compose yml to the docker command.

I would guess that attaching to the media wiki process caused a crash which has corrupted something in your data.