DokuWiki - Database-less Wiki - AMI by cloudimg

This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for cloudimg support services.

DokuWiki is a standards-compliant wiki for documentation, knowledge bases, intranets, and team collaboration. Its defining feature is plain-file storage - pages, revision history, uploaded media, metadata, and the full-text search index all live as files on disk. There is no database server to install, tune, or back up. This AMI delivers DokuWiki fully installed and running behind nginx with php-fpm, so a working wiki is serving pages within minutes of launch. Over 200 community plugins and templates extend its capabilities, and the broader DokuWiki open-source project powers wikis for thousands of teams worldwide.

Nginx answers HTTP requests on port 80 and passes them to php-fpm over a local socket. DokuWiki reads and writes content directly to a dedicated Amazon EBS data volume kept separate from the OS disk. Because the data volume is independently resizable, you can scale storage without rebuilding the instance. systemd starts nginx and php-fpm on boot and restarts them on failure.

Compatible AWS Services:

• Amazon EBS - Dedicated data volume for wiki content; resize or snapshot independently.
• Elastic Load Balancing - Built-in health endpoint on the web server supports ALB/NLB health checks.
• AWS Backup - Schedule automated snapshots of the EBS data volume for point-in-time recovery.
• Amazon Route 53 - Map a custom domain to your instance or load balancer.
• Amazon CloudWatch - Monitor instance CPU, memory, and disk metrics.
• LDAP / Active Directory - DokuWiki's auth plugins integrate with corporate directories for single sign-on.

Create and edit pages with a lightweight markup syntax and a built-in toolbar, organise them into namespaces, and upload images and files through the media manager. Full-text search and automatic indexing make content easy to find. Every edit is versioned so you can compare revisions and roll back. Access control lists govern who can read, edit, create, and upload in each namespace.

On first boot a one-shot service generates a fresh administrator password unique to that instance, seeds the DokuWiki admin account, and writes the password to a file only the root user can read. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.

Open the wiki in your browser, retrieve the generated credentials, sign in as admin, and start writing or importing pages straight away. Access control and the plugin manager are available from the admin panel. The built-in health endpoint answers on the web server for load-balancer and uptime checks. See the Pricing tab for per-hour software charges by instance type.

• Engineering team runbook store (10-200 contributors) - On-call engineers update incident-response runbooks in real time during outages, with revision history providing a full audit trail.
• Company-wide documentation wiki - Product, HR, and operations teams maintain a single source of truth without managing a database, ideal for organisations that want self-hosted control over sensitive content.
• Healthcare or compliance knowledge base - Regulated teams store SOPs and policy documents as plain text files that can be backed up with a simple file copy, simplifying audit and disaster-recovery workflows.
• Lightweight intranet for small-to-mid-size teams - Replace a hosted wiki service with a self-hosted instance running in your own AWS account, eliminating vendor lock-in and keeping content in a portable, non-proprietary format.
• Project or product manual - Multiple contributors collaborate on user-facing documentation with namespace-level permissions controlling who can publish.

24/7 technical support by email and live chat. Our engineers assist with deployment, namespace and access-control design, plugin and template selection, storage and search-index maintenance, backup strategy, and upgrade planning.