In this video I go through the manual installation steps to get a working BookStack setup running on Debian 12 Bookworm. At the time of recording, BookStack v23.06.2 is the latest version of BookStack. This uses MariaDB as a database, and Apache as the web-server. Certbot is used to fetch and install a HTTPS certificate.

Note that this guide only shows the process of installing BookStack on Debian, not the full process of setting up a fully security hardened environment nor the steps you may need to update & maintain your BookStack instance.

► Debian Website: https://www.debian.org/ ► BookStack Website: https://www.bookstackapp.com/ ► BookStack Install Docs: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/installation/ ► Composer Download: https://getcomposer.org/download/ ► BookStack Filesystem Permissions Guidance: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/filesystem-permissions/ ► BookStack Discord: https://discord.gg/ztkBqR2 ► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack ► Follow BookStack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bookstack_app ► Follow me on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@danb

0:00 Intro and environment 1:37 Installing requirements 5:34 Git & composer steps 6:44 .env file & database setup 10:44 File system permissions 13:28 App key and Apache config 16:24 Database migrations & access failure 17:35 Debugging tangent & adjusting Apache 19:03 First access & test 19:49 Adding HTTPS with Certbot 23:38 Updating content for HTTPS 25:46 Outro

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