GROWI Team Wiki on AWS - Managed Support

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

## A Team Wiki Your Organisation Actually Owns

GROWI is an open source team wiki and knowledge base built for organisations that want to capture and share what they know. This image delivers GROWI 7.5 fully built and configured on a bare metal Node.js and MongoDB stack, with no containers to manage, so your team can create its first page within minutes of launch.

## Who This Is For

Engineering teams consolidating runbooks, architecture decisions and onboarding material into one navigable page tree with full revision history. Product and operations teams drafting specifications together in real time, where several people editing the same page simultaneously is the normal way of working. IT administrators who need a self hosted wiki inside their own VPC without spending ops cycles on installation, credential rotation or reverse proxy configuration.

## What Makes GROWI Different

• Real time collaborative editing so multiple authors work on one page at once without locking or merge conflicts
• Markdown first authoring with live preview, diagrams, tables and math notation
• Hierarchical page tree where pages nest under paths, making a large knowledge base navigable rather than a flat list
• Revision history, comments, tags and page links across the whole wiki
• Attachments stored in the database so page content and its files stay together on one data volume

## Application Stack

• GROWI 7.5 built from the pinned upstream release on Node.js 24
• nginx reverse proxy on port 80, WebSocket aware for real time collaboration, with an unauthenticated health endpoint for load balancer probes
• MongoDB 8.0 datastore with authorization enabled, bound to the loopback interface
• Reach the wiki through nginx on port 80; the application port 3000 needs no inbound rule and should be left closed in your security group

## Secure By Default

Unlike images that ship a shared or documented password, this one generates every secret on each first boot:

• A one shot service completes the GROWI installation automatically, with no browser setup wizard left exposed for the first visitor to claim
• An administrator account is created with a per instance password written to a root only file
• A fresh MongoDB password and password hashing seed are generated and applied
• Self registration is locked closed, so the wiki is never world writable on a public address
• No shared credentials exist anywhere in the image

## Storage Layout

Two dedicated EBS volumes ship with the image, separate from the operating system disk and each independently resizable: the MongoDB datadir holding pages, revisions and attachments, and the GROWI application tier. Both are mounted by filesystem UUID.

## Getting Started

1. Launch the image on an m5.large instance or larger, with ports 80 and 443 open in your security group

2. Connect over SSH and read the generated administrator password from the root only credentials file

3. Browse to the instance address and sign in as the administrator

4. Create your first page in the Markdown editor and organise content into a page tree

5. Invite your team from the admin area, where user management, access control and appearance are configured

6. Attach OpenSearch or Elasticsearch later if you want full text search across a very large wiki

## Recommended Instance Sizing

• Minimum: m5.large (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM) for small teams
• Recommended: m5.xlarge (4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM) for teams above 50 concurrent authors
• Storage: grow the database volume as your wiki and attachments grow
• Networking: ports 80 and 443 for browsers, port 22 for administration

## 24/7 cloudimg Support

Every deployment is backed by cloudimg engineers available around the clock by email and live chat. Support covers:

• Deployment guidance and instance sizing
• MongoDB administration, backup and restore
• nginx reverse proxy and TLS termination with Let's Encrypt or your own certificates
• Attaching OpenSearch or Elasticsearch for full text search
• GROWI upgrades and migration assistance
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting

Critical issues receive a one hour average response time.

## Evaluation

Launch an instance to evaluate GROWI with your team and terminate at any time with no long term commitment.

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