wikijs

JSWiki

WikiJS is a powerful open source wiki software written using NodeJS. It can easily be run as a standalone container.

Run a new wikijs container accoring to their docs with the following options:

• Name the container wiki
• set ENV var DB_TYPE=sqlite
• set ENV var DB_FILEPATH=/wiki/wiki.sqlite
• mount the file ./wiki.sqlite (use absolut path) as /wiki/wiki.sqlite in the container (file will be created automatically if it doesn't exist)
• expose port 3000 as 3000
• run in detached mode
• Use image ghcr.io/requarks/wiki:2

If everything worked successfully you can open [http://localhost:3000] and finish the setup of the wiki.

Bonus

What is needed to run your installed wiki on another host? Which files would you need to backup?

Bonus 2

Try to setup another high-available wikijs instance with a PostgresSQL DB instead of sqlite

Some hints:

• You need to put the containers in a separate network (docker network create wikijs_postgres, --net wikijs_postgres)
• You need to run a postgres container (the internet has thousand examples)
• Spin up three wikijs instances for HA
• You need to configure wikijs to use the postgres database (see here)
• You need to set the env var HA_ACTIVE=true on the wikijs containers
• Expose one container on 3001 the second on 3002 and the third on 3003

Super bonus

If you have already done the webserver-ha example, you may know what a reverse proxy is. If not go and do this example first. If you have already done it, do the following:

• Copy the Caddyfile to this directory
• Edit the file so that it forwards to the three wiki containers and the correct ports
• Run a new reverse_proxy container and expose it on port 3333 and put it in the correct network ;)
• Check if http://localhost:3333 shows the wiki

Solution

See here