Self-Hosted Apps Licensed GPL-2.0

4 self-hostable apps released under GPL-2.0 you can run on your own server — compared on specs, deployment difficulty, and the SaaS each one replaces.

Wiki & docs

DokuWiki

A long-lived PHP wiki engine that stores pages as plain text files — no database to run, back up, or migrate. The project's own Docker image (a PHP + Apache container with a single storage volume) is the whole install; a web installer configures the wiki on the first visit, and the plugin and template ecosystem is where most of its features live.

PHPApache

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Media server

Jellyfin

Free, fully open-source media server — a no-paywall alternative to Plex with hardware transcoding included and no account required. Rougher client apps, total control.

C#.NET

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Database admin

phpMyAdmin

The long-standing web interface for MySQL and MariaDB: browse and edit tables, run SQL, manage users and privileges, import and export. Shipped as a PHP application on Apache, usually run next to the database it manages.

PHP

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Photo backup & gallery

Piwigo

A PHP photo gallery for organizing large photo collections into albums, with per-user and per-group permissions, tags and a plugin system.

PHPMySQL

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