PureWiki is designed to run efficiently on standard web hosting environments. You don't need expensive servers or complex infrastructure like databases or Node.js.

Software Prerequisites

Required PHP Extensions

• gd or imagick: For image processing and thumbnails.
• zip: For system backups and easy updates.
• curl: For making HTTPS requests (checking for new versions).
• openssl: Secure communication.

Web Server (Apache or Nginx)

PureWiki uses a single entry point (index.php). Your web server needs to redirect requests to this file if they don't point to an existing image or file.

On Apache, the included .htaccess takes care of the rewrites and blocks access to internal paths. For local development, start the PHP built-in server with php -S localhost:8000 router.php. The router.php mirrors the rewrite rules.

Nginx Recommendation

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;
}

# Block internal directories
location ~ ^/(config|cache|backups|purewiki/admin|purewiki/core|purewiki/api|purewiki/lang|purewiki/data|purewiki/extern|purewiki/frontend)/ {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

# Block data files and hidden files
location ~ \.(md|json|log|sh|ini|env|bak|swp|lock)$ {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

The file nginx.conf.example in the PureWiki root contains a complete server block.

Storage Consideration