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Portway Gateway / v1.4.0-stable

A calm way to run the tools you've been wanting to try.

Portway brings self-hosted software like Paperless, Vaultwarden, and Uptime Kuma to Windows with isolated local runtimes, verified manifests, and zero command-line friction.

Download for Windows MSI package (94.2 MB)

Windows 10/11 64-bit • Signed binary • No background telemetry • SHA-256 verified

What happens when you install Portway shield
Runs locally

All containers, volumes, and secrets stay on your machine. Isolated root located strictly in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Portway.

No cloud relay

Zero external proxy tunnels, zero hosted authentication wrappers, and no outbound metrics dependencies.

Direct port mapping

Transparent loopback allocation (127.0.0.1) with proactive host collision resolution.

Standard runtime

Built on lightweight, isolated OCI container primitives with native Windows service registration and quiet daemon control.

Local daemon offline unless explicitly launched
Windows Package Manager Install directly via Windows Terminal

Installs signed x64 manifest without elevation prompts.

winget install Portway.PortwayGateway

Verified manifest directory

10 curated manifests vetted out of the box, with full support for custom Docker Compose manifests.

Standardized host bridge
Paperless-ngx 127.0.0.1:8000

Document archiving with integrated OCR, metadata classification, and full-text index.

v2.10.2 manifest Isolated DB + Redis
Vaultwarden 127.0.0.1:8080

Lightweight Bitwarden-compatible vault backend written in Rust. Local SQLite storage.

v1.32.0 manifest Encrypted storage
Uptime Kuma 127.0.0.1:3001

Self-hosted monitoring utility for HTTP, TCP, Ping, DNS, and service heartbeats.

v1.23.13 manifest Zero telemetry
Stirling-PDF 127.0.0.1:8088

Private web suite for PDF splitting, OCR conversion, merging, and page extraction.

v0.32.0 manifest Air-gapped safe
Docmost 127.0.0.1:3000

Collaborative wiki and markdown knowledge base with real-time peer workspace editing.

v0.3.1 manifest Postgres backed
Pi-hole 127.0.0.1:8053

DNS sinkhole and local ad tracking filter with detailed local query analytics dashboard.

v2024.07 manifest DNS port bind
System requirements

Windows 10 Build 19041+ or Windows 11 (64-bit). Virtual Machine Platform optional (Portway embeds isolated lightweight guest virtualization). Minimum 4GB available system RAM.