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Self-Hosting Wiki.js: Versatile Wiki Platform

Wiki.js is a powerful, flexible wiki platform. Multiple editors, Git storage, authentication providers, and search backends.

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What Is Wiki.js?


Wiki.js is a modern, powerful wiki platform. It's the most flexible self-hosted wiki with support for multiple editors, storage backends, and authentication providers.


Features


Editors

  • Markdown editor
  • Visual editor (WYSIWYG)
  • Raw HTML editor
  • API documentation (OpenAPI)
  • Code editor

    • Storage

  • Database (default)
  • Git repository sync
  • AWS S3
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Local filesystem

    • Search

  • Database search (default)
  • Elasticsearch
  • Algolia
  • Azure Search
  • PostgreSQL full-text

    • Authentication

  • Local accounts
  • LDAP/Active Directory
  • SAML 2.0
  • OAuth2/OIDC (Google, GitHub, etc.)
  • Auth0, Okta, Keycloak

    • Other

  • Page nesting
  • Tags and metadata
  • Comments
  • Page history
  • Access control (per page/folder)
  • Multi-language
  • Diagrams (draw.io, Mermaid, PlantUML)

    • Wiki.js vs BookStack vs Outline


  • Wiki.js: Most flexible, most backends, multiple editors
  • BookStack: Most structured (shelves/books/chapters)
  • Outline: Best real-time collaboration, Slack integration

    • Deployment


    1. Deploy Wiki.js on TinyPod

    2. Configure authentication

    3. Create your wiki structure

    4. Write documentation


    Resources: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM with PostgreSQL.


    Wiki.js is the Swiss Army knife of self-hosted wikis. Whatever your wiki needs — editors, storage, search, auth — Wiki.js has multiple options for each.