Simplest For End User Wiki/Knowlege Repo for the end user

shnizmuffin , 6 months ago

I taught my users markdown with StackEdit, a side-by-side WYSIWYG / Markdown generator. It opened some doors for us in terms of the tech we could use behind the scenes.

bear , 7 months ago

I chose Bookstack for the same situation. It’s dead simple in usage and maintenance. No issues yet!

snekerpimp OP , 7 months ago

Tried bookstack first, but setting it up with docker was giving me issues and didn’t want to try bare metal/VM yet. It’s on my list to fiddle with though, thank you.

Concave1142 , 7 months ago

Here you go, this is my docker compose. You can modify the pieces as you see fit.

version: ‘3’ services:

Bookstack

<span style="color:#323232;">bookstack:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/bookstack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    container_name: bookstack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    environment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - PUID=${PUID}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - PGID=${PGID}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - APP_URL=
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - DB_HOST=bookstack_db
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - DB_USER=bookstack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - DB_PASSWORD=${BS_DB_PASS}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - DB_DATABASE=bookstackapp
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    volumes:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - ${DATA_DIR}/bookstack:/config
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    ports:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - 6875:80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    restart: unless-stopped
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    depends_on:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - bookstack_db
</span><span style="color:#323232;">bookstack_db:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    container_name: bookstack_db
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    environment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - PUID=${PUID}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - PGID=${PGID}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=${BS_DB_PASS}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - TZ=${TIMEZONE}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - MYSQL_DATABASE=bookstackapp
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - MYSQL_USER=bookstack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - MYSQL_PASSWORD=${BS_DB_PASS}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    volumes:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        - ${DATA_DIR}/bookstack/mariadb:/config
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    restart: unless-stopped
</span>

snekerpimp OP , 7 months ago

I notice in yours you dropped the - APP_URL=https://bookstack.example.com that linuxserver and solidnerd have in their compose files. I will comment that out and see if that helps my issues. would redirect to a 404 page every time.

Concave1142 , 7 months ago

That’s an error on my part, apologies. I copy/pasted and tried to redact my url from the APP_URL=bookstack.example.com section and ended up deleting the entire line; yay replying from mobile. :|

I currently use Bookstack on Docker in Unraid but the above docker compose snippet is from when I used a debian VM with docker installed on it to run my docker stacks.

avidamoeba , 7 months ago

I recently tested the most recommended wiki software and I settled on Wiki.js. Trivial to setup with docker-compose. It stores everything in its database but can continually dump it in various formats and places. I have it dump to the local filesystem. It spits out Markdown files. It can run on SQLite but it defaults to Postgres which provides better search. It’s got simple RBAC too.

snekerpimp OP , 7 months ago

This was the first one I set up. I enjoy it, but I need to see if someone who only knows how to use gmail can operate it.

AnonStoleMyPants , 7 months ago

Something like docuwiki maybe, it looks like Wikipedia so everyone would immediately feel at home there.

snekerpimp OP , 7 months ago

I will spin one of those up. Thank you for the suggestion.

supersheep , 7 months ago

Wiki.js is pretty simple and the solution I settled for after testing multiple options. Other examples can be found here: awesome-selfhosted

snekerpimp OP , 7 months ago

Saw everything on awesome-selfhosted, just wasn’t sure which out of the plethora of options out there was the easiest for the end user.

notfromhere , 7 months ago

Another vote for wiki.js. It has tons of authentication options and integrations. The mobile web interface is a tad clunky but usable.