LeafWiki
★ 1.0kA self-hosted alternative to Notion
MIT LicenseOpen Source — No Paywall2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintDocker · Compose · Binary +1No external DB
About
LeafWiki is a self-hosted wiki designed for engineers, homelab users, and small teams that want structured documentation without operating a large stack. It emphasizes a narrow, lightweight setup: a...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- tree navigation
- manual page ordering
- full-text search
- tag filtering
- backlinks
- Markdown editor with live preview
- keyboard shortcuts
- autocomplete for internal links
- optimistic locking
- revision history
Details
- Last Updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- Created
- Mar 25, 2025
- Install Methods
- dockerdocker-composebinarysource
- Requirements
- SQLiteGoReact (Vite)Node.jsnginx
- Authentication
- localproxy-auth
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- file-backupgit-backup
- Runtime / Stack
- DockerGo
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: OptionalOffline 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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