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Kiwix
The internet's reference shelf, offline
Serves ZIM archives — the whole of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, Project Gutenberg, medical and educational libraries — from local files, searchable, with no connection at all. The full English Wikipedia with images is about 100GB; the text-only version is a tenth of that.
CategoryFiles
Memory~150MB
Module
kiwixInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install kiwixWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| Kiwix | :8087 | No account and no login — everything served is readable by anyone who reaches the page. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- It serves what you give it and downloads nothing: put .zim files in the pool under a kiwix/ folder, from download.kiwix.org
- The page is empty until at least one .zim is there — the server expands the glob at start, so add files then restart
- No authentication whatsoever, which is why it binds to this box only by default. Change Listen address in Settings to share it on the LAN