WikiJS - Long request,I'm finally covering WikiJS - an Open Source, Self Hosted, Powerful Wiki!

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WikiJS Home Page
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=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Beginning
00:09 Intro to WikiJS
03:15 Thank you to my Patrons at Patreon, and my subscribers on KZbin
04:55 Setup a Non-Root User in Linux
07:40 Setup our Docker folder Structure for Install
08:45 Add our docker-compose.yml file
12:15 Install Docker and Docker-Compose
16:50 Setup our Portainer-CE Instance (GUI for Docker)
18:20 Install WikiJS with Docker-Compose
20:30 Setup WikiJS
22:45 Setup a FQDN (Full URL) for our WikiJS Install with SSL
25:00 WikiJS Admin Dashboard
25:35 Create our WikiJS Main Page
28:30 WikiJS Settings
40:00 How to Contribute to WikiJS
41:30 Looking at a more Setup WikiJS System - Setup Navigation
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[@Jmoss7]

Thanks so much for this video. Embarking on a side project to make a wiki and wiki.js looks absolutely phenomenal. Will definitely be coming back to reference some of the setup!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad it was helpful!

[@CoolPupGaming]

Here trying to make a confluence alternative (mainly for fun and learning purposes) and this vid also helped.

[@jurry.11]

Thank you so much! You made it easy and simple with that script!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

So happy it was helpful.

[@godarayudhvir]

Actually the most awaited one, been sitting on it for a year and finally installed it back in January

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Excellent! Are you liking it?

[@godarayudhvir]

@@AwesomeOpenSource you bet i am. Thanks for the video as always

[@larrybahr489]

Great video! Going to try this out

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@TechnoTim]

My wiki runs on WikiJS and it's great!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It is some awesome open source software for certain!

[@johnfermor]

Many thanks, Brian. Looks good. Considering migrating my Bookstack conetnt to it.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It's really nice, but I really love Bookstack too. Have a video for BookStack coming soon.

[@johnfermor]

@@AwesomeOpenSource That truly is awesome! Can you please include a way to backup and restore Bookstack content (there's no built in way)? I know commands exist but it's knowing where to put/run them in the container..

[@potzblitz49583]

Absolute legend! Thank you so much!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Any time!

[@dragonsage6909]

Great episode, thanks!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@MaxReig]

Uuuuooo grande tio 😉. Yo acabo de instalar ayer mismo, pero en virtual machine + postgresql, la verdad es que va muy bien. La semana que viene voy hacer uns prueba en producción con 40 usuarios... veremos como se comporta. Genial video, Saludo desde Barcelona. ========== Uuuuooo 😉 big guy. I just installed yesterday, but virtual machine + postgresql, the truth is going very well. Next week I do uns production test with 40 users ... we'll see how it behaves. Great video, Greetings from Barcelona.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That's awesome! Let me know how the testing goes.

[@DigitEgal]

Thanks as always. It got a nice Futuristic design. Same Question as last Time: federative protocolls integrated? react api etc

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I don't think there is any federation built in. The API, not sure about, there was some stuff about an API in the future though.

[@GundamExia88]

This is nice! I've been looking for free alternative to wiki/confluence for work.... they store docs in SVN right... scary. Does this do version control?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Don't know about SVN. Version control would seem like an easy add if it's not already there, if they do indeed use SVN.

[@JakesHobbyandTech]

Brian, why don't you use the Stacks feature inside Portainer to do your docker-compose setup?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I do on various videos. I try to switch off installing via a stack or docker-compose. I try to show, in each video, that you can do either one, but switch out which one I actually install from for the videos.

[@EnlightenedBitFox]

Nice tutorial, thank you. Can you tell me how did u create and execute your home lab dashboard seen in @22:46 ?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Sure, I'm using Dashy for that. It's an awesome open source project. Here's a video on it kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6S0hq2rqayUqKM.

[@mead650]

You are awesome! Thank you. and this works with Linux Mint with option number 4

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad it was helpful, and you've got it up and running!

[@joaopaulosapidepaula1706]

Thanks so much for this great video!! How I make to integrat wikijs with database external?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Instead of including the database service in the docker compose, you would want to use the environment variables to point to your external Database. IP, Port, username, password, etc. If you need more help, jump over to discuss.opensourceisawesome.com and ask for help in the "help-me-please" channel.

[@sayan_dasgupta]

I am already using this (learned from your video, thanks), and have quite a lot of data. So, how do I migrate from one machine to another ? Shall I copy the path and config folder from my old system to new system and do the process again ?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

If you setup the mapped folders in the docker-compose file, particularly the one for the database / data.... then make sure to first backup the entier wikijs folder, and ensure you are also getting your data when you make the backup. The best thing to do is stop the containers for a minute to make the backup, then start it again for users if needed. Just to ensure the backup isn't corrupted from use during the backup process. Next, move the entire backup to the new machine, and make any necessary changes to the IP addresses, ports, urls, folder mappings (if needed) in the docker-compose file, then try and bring it back up. Check the logs for any issues, and make adjustments as you go.

[@basdfgwe]

Would you mind checking outline, and if possible do a tut on self hosting it ? Im trying to run it in docker and struggling.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

To be sure, thisis the one you mean www.getoutline.com/? Right?

[@mahmoodiranol2845]

Thanks man❤🎉

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You're welcome 😊

[@ContantContact]

I/We went with Dokuwiki years ago. Not sorry we chose it. PHP rather than JS, and there is no database. The file system is the database. Good ACL system, and there are enough extensions to get the job done.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Very nice!

[@kenrickdew]

Hello, i already develop the wiki on my local machine and loaded the image into my oracle linux server, how did you manage to not include the database configurations ?

[@priscillaamorim88]

Thank you. The installation went smoothly, but it seems wikijs can't go through corporate proxy. I´ve tried to add language files in the data/sideload folder, but it didn't work =(

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Sorry to hear that. I would highly recommend posting on their community forums, and you might find someone who can help you get things up and running as you want.

[@deejayrubio6915]

I don't know what I missed but I can get to the wikijs site using the ipaddress but the url I made is not working, any thoughts? am getting internal error on nginx

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Not sure. Are you using NGinX Proxy Manager? And who is your registrar for the domain? Did you set your A record to the correct public IP?

[@deejayrubio6915]

@@AwesomeOpenSource am self hosting so I pretty much kept the same IP the whole time which came all the way back to the very beginning.. am the same person as registrar for the domain (not sure if that answers the question)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I'm happy to help you out if you still need it. Jump over to discuss.opensourceisawesome.com, and tag me (mickintx), and I'll jump on when I can and we can investigate a bit.

[@vedamoola72]

Hello, How do we write our own theme. I want to change the colour of the header in wiki.js Thanks

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You are definitely getting beyond my knowledge of it. Probably a better question for the WikiJS folks.

[@vedamoola72]

@@AwesomeOpenSourcethanks for the response. Will see how we can customise it

[@matthewterpstra4675]

I get a green dot in Nginx proxy manager, but I’m unable to access wikijs from internet.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Hmmmm. And you're forwarding ports 80 and 443 through to NPM, right?

[@MsRope93]

thanks, nice Wiki

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Any time!

[@dura2k]

Great Video, but a bit more about the difference to XWIKI and which one you would/will use would be great for me.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I appreciate that you want to know what I would run, and it really just depends on the use case. For my own home use, I like bookstack, and for my shownotes, I'd like to eventually migrate from Ghost to Bookstack, but if I was running an organization and wanted team use of a Wiki, I would go for XWiki or WikiJS.

[@dura2k]

@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks for the fast answer. Bookstack is not my favorite, because of the limited structure, but as I understand you see XWiki and wiki.js as similar? :)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

@@dura2k similar in use case, not as much in functionality. The so similar things in different ways. XWiki is much more like Confluence.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

@@dura2k I’d say built for the same use case.

[@betounix7217]

Nice =D

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks.

[@fhariqaulady3595]

can you make a tutorial about cyberpanel on ubuntu server?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Let me see what I can do.

[@fhariqaulady3595]

@@AwesomeOpenSource allright sir

[@AcidiFy574]

Is there a non-JS version of it???

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Hahahah, I guess that would be called "Wiki".

[@Fr33manTV]

4:59 Skip to setup

[@46dude41]

Didnt you find de Search system very poor? i love the project but discarded it in favour of bookstack only for that.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I didn't play with search much, but it worked for the basic searching that I did. I do use Bookstack myself, and it does have a really great search.

[@schneemann]

A little visual introduction would be great (show, dont tell) about what the system can do, how it looks and so on. The video basically only starts after almost 8 minutes with the installation. And even by the end, I still dont know how it looks to actually USE (and not just setup / configure) the system.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I do indeed get a bit wordy and carried away sometimes.

[@slovnoj]

anywhere anyone covering graphql api for wikiJS?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I don't know if anyone has covered that.

[@alihamdi9359]

Why is soo complicated to install any of this free wikis, I spend one week and I am still not getting done, is any easier way?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Dockeer is pretty "easy". I mean anything as complicated as a wiki will have some level of complication involved. Are you talking the installation, or the setup after installation?

[@alihamdi9359]

@@AwesomeOpenSource I mean both of them, installation and setup

[@Vardash]

@@alihamdi9359 There's nothing complicated about this, if you're on windows just install docker desktop and wsl2, reboot your computer, open cmd and type docker pull linuxserver/wikijs. finished.

[@turdtrails7511]

I love your channel but your lip smacking noises drive me nuts. At least you don’t nervous cough like dbtech. I love both of you.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Sorry about that, I've been trying to improve my editing, and audio over the years. Hopefully my more recent videos are a bit better.

[@frouk2000]

Thanks for video , could you tell me if you prefer xwiki or wiki.js ? there is a support for wiki.js ?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I think they are both amazing powerful tools. I personally liked XWiki better, just because I'm accustomed to the Confluence like layout, but both are really good.