Empower the team with sharing your knowledge.

Crowi is a Markdown Wiki like:

• Easy to edit and share,
• Markdown supported,
• Useful timeline list view,
• Fast.

Install dependencies and build CSS and JavaScript:

$ npm install

More info is here.

Don't use master branch because it is unstable. Use released version except when you want to contribute to the project.

• Node.js 12.x
• MongoDB 4.2.x
• Elasticsearch 6.x.x or 7.x.x (optional) (Doc is here)
• Redis (optional)
• Amazon S3 (optional)
• Google Project (optional)
• Slack App (optional)

Crowi is designed to be set up on Heroku or some PaaS, but you can also start up Crowi with ENV parameter on your local.

$ PASSWORD_SEED=somesecretstring MONGO_URI=mongodb://username:password@localhost/crowi node app.js

or please write .env.

• PORT: Server port. default: 3000.
• BASE_URL: Server base URL (e.g. https://demo.crowi.wiki/). If this env is not set, it is detected by accessing URL.
• NODE_ENV: production OR development.
• MONGO_URI: URI to connect to MongoDB. This parameter is also by MONGOHQ_URL OR MONGOLAB_URI.
• REDIS_URL: URI to connect to Redis (used for session store and socket.io). This parameter is also by REDISTOGO_URL.
  • Use rediss:// scheme if you want to TLS connection to Redis.
  • REDIS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED: Set "0" if you want to skip the verification of certificate.
• ELASTICSEARCH_URI: URI to connect to Elasticearch.
• PASSWORD_SEED: A password seed used by password hash generator.
• SECRET_TOKEN: A secret key for verifying the integrity of signed cookies.
• FILE_UPLOAD: aws (default), local, none

Optional:

• MATHJAX: If set 1, enable MathJax feature.
• PLANTUML_URI: If set the url of PlantUML server, then enable PlantUML feature. e.g. http://localhost:18080.
• ENABLE_DNSCACHE: If set true, Use internal DNS cache for crowi in Linux VMs. (See also: #407)

see: .env.sample

We can use docker-compose for develop without complicated settings.

$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml up

• Express restarts when a file changed
• Webpack compiled assets automatically

Please try the following commands.

# Stop containers
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml stop
# Remove containers
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml rm
# Remove images
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml images -q | xargs docker rmi -f
# Build images
$ docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml build

• The MIT License (MIT)
• See LICENSE file.