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Bookstack is a free and open source Wiki designed for creating beautiful documentation. Feautring a simple, but powerful WYSIWYG editor it allows for teams to create detailed and useful documentation with ease.

Powered by SQL and including a Markdown editor for those who prefer it, BookStack is geared towards making documentation more of a pleasure than a chore.

For more information on BookStack visit their website and check it out: https://www.bookstackapp.com

Supported Architectures

Our images support multiple architectures such as x86-64, arm64 and armhf. We utilise the docker manifest for multi-platform awareness. More information is available from docker here and our announcement here.

Simply pulling linuxserver/bookstack should retrieve the correct image for your arch, but you can also pull specific arch images via tags.

The architectures supported by this image are:

Architecture Tag
x86-64 amd64-latest
arm64 arm64v8-latest
armhf arm32v6-latest

Usage

Here are some example snippets to help you get started creating a container from this image.

docker

docker create \
  --name=bookstack \
  -e PUID=1000 \
  -e PGID=1000 \
  -e DB_HOST=<yourdbhost> \
  -e DB_USER=<yourdbuser> \
  -e DB_PASS=<yourdbpass> \
  -e DB_DATABASE=bookstackapp \
  -e APP_URL=your.site.here.xyz \
  -p 6875:80 \
  -v <path to data>:/config \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  linuxserver/bookstack

docker-compose

Compatible with docker-compose v2 schemas.

---
version: "2"
services:
  bookstack:
    image: linuxserver/bookstack
    container_name: bookstack
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - DB_HOST=<yourdbhost>
      - DB_USER=<yourdbuser>
      - DB_PASS=<yourdbpass>
      - DB_DATABASE=bookstackapp
      - APP_URL=your.site.here.xyz
    volumes:
      - <path to data>:/config
    ports:
      - 6875:80
    restart: unless-stopped

Parameters

Docker images are configured using parameters passed at runtime such as those above. These parameters are separated by a colon and indicate <external>:<internal> respectively. For example, -p 8080:80 would expose port 80 from inside the container to be accessible from the host's IP on port 8080 outside the container.

Ports `-p`

Parameter Function
80 will map the container's port 80 to port 6875 on the host

Environment Variables `-e`

Env Function
PUID=1000 for UserID - see below for explanation
PGID=1000 for GroupID - see below for explanation
DB_HOST=<yourdbhost> for specifying the database host
DB_USER=<yourdbuser> for specifying the database user
DB_PASS=<yourdbpass> for specifying the database password
DB_DATABASE=bookstackapp for specifying the database to be used
APP_URL=your.site.here.xyz for specifying the url your application will be accessed on required for correct operation of reverse proxy

Volume Mappings `-v`

Volume Function
/config this will store any uploaded data on the docker host

User / Group Identifiers

When using volumes `-v` flags, permissions issues can arise between the host OS and the container, we avoid this issue by allowing you to specify the user PUID and group PGID.

Ensure any volume directories on the host are owned by the same user you specify and any permissions issues will vanish like magic.

In this instance PUID=1000 and PGID=1000, to find yours use id user as below:

  $ id username
    uid=1000(dockeruser) gid=1000(dockergroup) groups=1000(dockergroup)

Application Setup

This application is dependent on an SQL database be it one you already have or a new one. If you do not already have one, set up our MariaDB container.

Once the MariaDB container is deployed, you can enter the following commands into the shell of the MariaDB container to create the user, password and database that the app will then use. Replace myuser/mypassword with your own data.

Note this will allow any user with these credentials to connect to the server, it is not limited to localhost

from shell on sql container: 
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE bookstackapp;
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'myuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';
GRANT ALL privileges ON `bookstackapp`.* TO 'myuser'@'%';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Once you have completed these, you can then use the docker run command to create your BookStack container. Make sure you replace things such as with the correct data.

Then docker start bookstackapp to start the container. You should then be able to access the container at http://dockerhost:6875

Default username is admin@admin.com with password of password

If you intend to use this application behind a reverse proxy, such as our LetsEncrypt container or Traefik you will need to make sure that the APP_URL environment variable is set, or it will not work

Documentation for BookStack can be found at https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/

Advanced Users full control over the .env file

If you wish to use the extra functionality of BookStack such as email, memcache, ldap and so on you will need to make your own .env file with guidance from the BookStack documentation.

When you create the container, do not set any arguments for any SQL settings, or APP_URL. The container will copy an .env file to /config/www/.env on your host system for you to edit.

Composer

Some simple docker-compose files are included for you to get started with. You will still need to manually configure the SQL server, but the compose files will get the stack running for you.

Support Info

  • Shell access whilst the container is running:
    • docker exec -it bookstack /bin/bash
  • To monitor the logs of the container in realtime:
    • docker logs -f bookstack
  • Container version number
    • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' bookstack
  • Image version number
    • docker inspect -f '{{ index .Config.Labels "build_version" }}' linuxserver/bookstack

Versions

  • 20.01.19: - Added php7-curl
  • 04.11.18: - Added php7-ldap
  • 15.10.18: - Changed functionality for advanced users
  • 08.10.18: - Advanced mode, symlink changes, sed fixing, docs updated, added some composer files
  • 23.09.28: - Updates pre-release
  • 02.07.18: - Initial Release.