weblite/swete

Simple Website Translation Engine

dev-master 2026-03-13 16:12 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.0.0

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Steve Hannah

README

SWeTE (Simple Website Translation Engine) is an open source translation proxy written in PHP, using MySQL for its translation memory.

• SWeTE Homepage
• Introductory Tutorial - (An article originally published in PHP Architect)
• Users Guide

Quick Start (Docker)

The easiest way to run SWeTE is with Docker:

git clone https://github.com/shannah/swete.git
cd swete
docker compose up

Then open http://localhost:8080/swete-admin/ in your browser.

To use a different port:

SWETE_PORT=9090 docker compose up

To run multiple instances on the same machine, use different ports and project names:

SWETE_PORT=8080 docker compose -p swete1 up
SWETE_PORT=9090 docker compose -p swete2 up

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
SWETE_PORT	8080	Host port for the web interface
DB_HOST	db	MySQL/MariaDB hostname
DB_NAME	swete	Database name
DB_USER	swete	Database user
DB_PASSWORD	swete	Database password

Manual Installation

Requirements

• PHP 7.0+
• MySQL 5+ or MariaDB 10+
• Apache 1.3+ with mod_rewrite

See the Users Guide for manual installation instructions.

License

GPLv2

Credits

SWeTE Server is developed by Web Lite Translation Corp..