Linkwarden | Support by cloudimg

## Linkwarden by cloudimg

Linkwarden is the popular open source self-hosted bookmark manager and web archive. Collect links into collections, organise them with tags, and search across everything full-text. For every link Linkwarden automatically preserves a screenshot, a PDF, a single-file HTML copy and a readable text snapshot, so the content survives even when the original page changes or disappears. This Amazon Machine Image delivers Linkwarden fully built and configured, so a complete bookmarking and archiving platform is running within minutes of launch. The current release available is Linkwarden 2.14.

## Application Stack

The image runs Linkwarden on Node.js 22 with a local PostgreSQL 16 database. The Next.js web application is served on port 3000 behind an nginx reverse proxy on port 80, and a background worker performs page archiving using Playwright Chromium for screenshots and PDFs and the monolith engine for full-page HTML capture.

## Secure First Boot

On the first boot of every instance a one shot service generates a fresh authentication secret and a fresh PostgreSQL password, seeds a single administrator account unique to that instance, and disables open self-registration. The credentials are written to a root only file. No shared or default credentials ship in the image.

## Ready To Use

The Linkwarden application, web server, database and archiving engine are all configured, with the database and archived files on dedicated, independently resizable storage volumes. Browse to the instance address, sign in as the administrator, and start adding collections, saving links and building your personal web archive.

## cloudimg Support

cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering Linkwarden deployment, upgrades, archiving configuration, object storage, search tuning, TLS termination and PostgreSQL administration.