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The Arch wiki is a huge resource for many of my projects, so having an offline copy for those occasions I am not on the Internet is useful. This is a guide for installing the Arch wiki package and hosting it with nginx inside of a VM. This guide assumes the virtual Arch environment is already setup and at a root shell.

Prepare the environment¶

• Ensure everything is up to date:
  

  pacman -Syu
  

Install Arch Wiki¶

• Install that arch-wiki-docs package:
  

  pacman -S arch-wiki-docs
  

• Install nginx:
  

  pacman -S nginx
  

• Edit the nginx config:
  

  nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
  

  • And change the default location in the http server block:
    

    location / {
      root /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/en/;
      index index.html index.htm;
      autoindex on;
    }
    

    
    NOTE: Make to include the autoindex line, since the arch-wiki-docs package does not have a proper index file.

• Start and enable nginx at boot:
  

  systemctl start nginx.service
  systemctl enable nginx.service
  

Install RFC¶

• Install RFC:
  

  pacman -S rfc
  

• Edit the nginx config:
  

  nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
  

  • And add a location in the http server block for rfc:
    

    location /rfc {
      root /usr/share/doc/rfc;
      index index.html index.htm;
      autoindex on;
    }
    

    
    NOTE: Make to include the autoindex on; line, since the arch-wiki-docs package does not have a proper index file.