In this video go through the process of setting up BookStack on Windows 10 using XAMPP. The set-up is only intended for testing out BookStack locally, as there could be security concerns with the style of set-up used.

► BookStack Website: https://www.bookstackapp.com/ ► BookStack Install Docs: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/installation/ ► XAMPP Website: https://www.apachefriends.org/ ► Composer Download Page: https://getcomposer.org/download/ ► Git Website: https://git-scm.com/ ► BookStack Demo Instance: https://demo.bookstackapp.com/books/bookstack-demo-site/page/logging-in-to-the-demo-site ► 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 & advisory 1:12 Software requirements 8:25 Testing Apache & phpMyAdmin 11:37 Cloning down BookStack with Git 14:24 Composer & tweaking PHP config 18:05 Database setup and .env config 26:32 Apache configuration 31:47 Migrating the database 32:49 Webserver and APP_URL debugging 34:50 Initial access 35:46 Updating BookStack 37:30 Backing up content 38:27 Outro