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BookStack

BookStack

BookStack is a self-hosted documentation platform. Organize technical wikis as Books → Chapters → Pages with WYSIWYG and Markdown editing. MIT-licensed PHP/Laravel app, with full-text search, page diffs, and SAML/OIDC SSO. Ideal for engineering team handbooks and internal knowledge bases.

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Active installs

License MIT Version Latest OS Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS Min RAM 2 GB IP IPV4

Active installs is sample data (staging preview); real metric wires in before launch.

Access

Open your browser and visit: http://<SERVER_IP>

Default login credentials:

Change the password immediately after your first login (you can also update the email address).

Important Files and Directories

  • Install path: /var/www/bookstack
  • Web root: /var/www/bookstack/public
  • Environment file: /var/www/bookstack/.env
  • Storage directory: /var/www/bookstack/storage
  • Uploads directory: /var/www/bookstack/public/uploads
  • Apache config: /etc/apache2/sites-available/bookstack.conf

Services

Apache:

systemctl status apache2
systemctl restart apache2

MySQL:

systemctl status mysql
systemctl restart mysql

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