LeafWiki
★ 504A self-hosted alternative to Notion
MIT LicenseOpen Source — No Paywall2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintDocker · Compose · Binary +2No external DB
About
LeafWiki is a self-hosted wiki application for long-lived documentation that needs to remain structured and portable. It is aimed at engineers, self-hosters, and small teams that want something...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- Markdown-first editing
- Structured tree navigation
- Full-text search
- Role-based access
- Public read-only mode
- Revision history
- Link refactoring
- Markdown import
- Mobile-friendly UI
- Built-in live preview
Details
- Last Updated
- Jun 27, 2026
- Created
- Mar 25, 2025
- Install Methods
- dockerdocker-composebinarysourcepackage-manager
- Requirements
- Go binary/runtimeSQLiteDocker (optional)Docker Compose (optional)nginx (example deployment)
- Authentication
- local
- Backup & Export
- file-backupnative-export
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerGo
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers
Docker Compose
2 services · infra: nginx
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (1 volume)
e2e-proxy/docker-compose.yml · @ 3cc5ee8 · scanned Jun 8, 2026
services:
leafwiki:
build:
context: ..
dockerfile: Dockerfile
args:
DISABLE_REFRESH_TOKEN_RATE_LIMIT: "true"
command:
- "--jwt-secret=proxy-e2e-secret"
- "--admin-password=admin"
- "--allow-insecure=true"
- "--enable-http-remote-user=true"
# Trust the entire proxy-net subnet so nginx can forward headers.
- "--trusted-proxy-ips=172.30.0.0/16"
networks:
proxy-net:
ipv4_address: 172.30.0.2
healthcheck:
test: ["CMD", "wget", "-qO-", "http://localhost:8080/api/config"]
interval: 2s
# ...
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