How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup

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Fabricio20 ◴[17 Nov 24 20:14 UTC] No.42166791[source]▶

I tried to run Wiki.js in the past but it's really buggy and has a lot of spinners/loading pages for what is supposed to be simple html pages so i've been looking for a good self-hosted alternative since.

I love how there are so many options in the HN comments, and some of them look really good as well, however I still struggle to believe that none of them are self-contained. All of them require a a redis container, a postgres container, a frontend proxy etc.. for a simple wiki? can't the wiki run it's own redis-cache internally, maybe run with sqlite? Have all the oauth/proxy stuff optional?

In the meantime i've been running with mkdocs but since it's a site generator but it's not really user friendly as you need to redeploy to see changes, etc..

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movedx ◴[17 Nov 24 21:00 UTC] No.42167195[source]▶

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MediaWiki. Is there something wrong with the solution powering Wikipedia? It’s very simple to set up, and you can one-click deploy it on DigitalOcean for $10/month.

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1. Fabricio20 ◴[18 Nov 24 19:12 UTC] No.42175809[source]▶

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I gave MediaWiki a shot just now but it's seriously lacking Markdown support. Seems that there's a plugin for it but that's a no-go in the docker setup, would need to make my own container because it depends on some php package that doesn't come in the default image. Really a shame the docker setup isn't made to be extensions friendly.

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