I currently run a personal wiki for some notes, recipes, and stuff. It’s set up using Wiki.js as the server. I’m the only regular user, and I feel like it’s a bit of an overkill.
Does someone have any suggestions for a more lightweight wiki server? I tried DokuWiki and mostly like it. But the UI is very old and dare I say, ugly. I love the UI of Wiki.js btw.
My main criteria is that it should be lightweight. I don’t need fancy editing features. Happy to work with raw html or markdown files.
I need some kind of permission management to hide some private wikis from the public, but otherwise I don’t really care.
Fossil-scm.org is very lightweight (2mb ram) and does quite a lot. See if you like it.
That’s pretty neat!
Hadn’t heard of it before. Looks promising, thank you.
Fossil looks really cool ! To bad they don’t approve a container setup ! They surely have their reason.
They don’t? They even ship a Dockerfile, the prebuilt image is just not published on a registry
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/containers.md
Wow, they really hate the idea that everyone could just spin up a Docker container with their wiki software.
Eh, they just don’t pre-build and publish the image themselves. Why assume malice? 🤷♂️
Btw, Fossil isn’t really a wiki software but a full on source control system a la git, with its own front end, that includes a wiki. It’s developed and used by the SQLite developers. It’s a single executable, so it’s pretty easy to run anywhere already, I assume they may just provide the Dockerfile for convenience…
Given this context it seems much more reasonable having such a complex and long instructions page on how to run it in Docker. This seems to be something you don’t just try and run simply for checking it out.
I looked at the instructions it under the premise of “lightweight wiki server” and did not check in detail what this specific software is.