Apache Answer
Built by apache
A Q&A community for your product or team, where every answer is easy to find.
About
What it does
Apache Answer is a question-and-answer platform in the spirit of Stack Overflow. Set it up as a help center for your customers, a support forum for your community or a knowledge base for your team.
Voting, accepted answers and reputation bring the best answers to the top, and plugins let you shape it to fit your workflow.
Highlights
- Questions, answers, comments and voting
- Reputation, badges and moderation tools
- Tags and powerful search
- Plugin system for login, search, storage and more
- Available in many languages
Who it's for
Product teams and communities that answer the same questions over and over.
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Apache Answer - Build Q&A platform
A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it’s a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Answer.
To learn more about the project, visit answer.apache.org.
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Quick start
Running with docker
docker run -d -p 9080:80 -v answer-data:/data --name answer apache/answer:2.0.3
For more information, see Installation.
Plugins
Answer provides a plugin system for developers to create custom plugins and expand Answer’s features. You can find the plugin documentation here.
We value your feedback and suggestions to improve our documentation. If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact us. We’re excited to see what you can create using our plugin system!
You can also check out the plugins here.
Building from Source
Prerequisites
Build
# Install wire and mockgen for building. You can run `make check` to check if they are installed.
$ make generate
# Install frontend dependencies and build
$ make ui
# Install backend dependencies and build
$ make build
Contributing
Contributions are always welcome!
See CONTRIBUTING for ways to get started.