Infrastructure

Core MRDTech platform, network, security, automation, and operations documentation.

The sidebar lists pages assigned to this category through WikiDocs frontmatter. No nested document folders are used.

WikiDocs uses a custom MRDTech category-frontmatter sidebar patch. Stock zavy86/wikidocs does not understand the category: field used by the document files, so replacing the service with the bare upstream image will flatten the sidebar again.

Durable deployment details:

Compose stack: /data/compose/107/docker-compose.yml
Compose project: wikidocs
Custom image: mrdtech/wikidocs-category:20260728
Build context: /home/michaeld/stacks/wikidocs-category-patch
Dockerfile: /home/michaeld/stacks/wikidocs-category-patch/Dockerfile
Patched files baked into the image:
- /var/www/localhost/htdocs/classes/Document.class.php
- /var/www/localhost/htdocs/template.inc.php

Required patch markers:

Document::getMetadata()
Document::stripMetadata()
Document::getCategory()
Document::indexByCategory()
template logic using Document::getCategory($DOC->ID)

Expected verification after any rebuild or recreate:

cd /data/compose/107
docker compose -p wikidocs up -d --force-recreate wikidocs
docker inspect wikidocs-wikidocs-1 --format 'Image={{.Config.Image}} ImageID={{.Image}}'
docker exec wikidocs-wikidocs-1 sh -lc 'grep -nE "getMetadata|stripMetadata|getCategory|indexByCategory|current_category" /var/www/localhost/htdocs/classes/Document.class.php /var/www/localhost/htdocs/template.inc.php'

Rendered expectation:

Homepage/top sidebar has exactly 5 top-level items: About Michael, Hacker Culture, Infrastructure, Projects, Runbooks.
Infrastructure renders 19 categorized child pages.
Projects renders 3 categorized child pages.
No categorized page shows raw category: frontmatter.

Do not change the image back to zavy86/wikidocs unless the category patch is also preserved another way. The previous regression happened because the patch lived only inside the disposable container filesystem.

Infrastructure

WikiDocs category sidebar patch durability