phpMyFAQ 4 Knowledge Base on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS by cloudimg

phpMyFAQ is an established open source FAQ and knowledge base platform used by support teams, companies and communities to publish question and answer content their users can actually find. Content is organised into nested categories and written in a WYSIWYG editor, then surfaced through full text search, tags, a glossary and related article suggestions. It adds multi language content, user and group permissions, news, file attachments, comments and open questions from visitors, PDF export, reporting on what people search for and read, and a REST API, all from one web interface. This image is built and maintained by cloudimg on a hardened, fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base, with phpMyFAQ 4 served by Apache and PHP 8.3 and a bundled local MariaDB server, so the appliance is complete and useful on its own.

The setup wizard is pre completed and locked away behind a denial, so the knowledge base is ready the moment the instance boots and no customer ever meets an installer. A unique administrator password and a unique database password are generated on the first boot of every VM and written to a root only file. The shipped image carries both passwords rotated to discarded random values, so no known or blank credential authenticates. Browse to phpMyFAQ on port 80, sign in as the admin user, create your categories, and start publishing searchable question and answer content.

Each instance points itself at its own address on first boot, so sign in and generated links work immediately, and session cookies are issued host only so sign in behaves correctly whether you browse by IP or by a DNS name. The bundled MariaDB listens only on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1:3306) and is never exposed to the network. A single dedicated managed data disk carries both the MariaDB database and phpMyFAQ's content tree holding configuration, images and attachments, so your data stays off the operating system disk and rides with the VM. An unauthenticated /healthz endpoint is provided for load balancer probes. For production, front port 80 with your own domain and TLS.

phpMyFAQ is free and open source software licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. This image is an independent packaging of the open source phpMyFAQ software by cloudimg and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the phpMyFAQ project. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.