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Requirements
- PHP version 7.0.0 or greater
- PHP Extensions:
OpenSSL,PDO,MBstring,Tokenizer,GD,MySQLND,Tidy,SimpleXML, andDOM - MySQL version 5.6 or greater
- Git (Not strictly required but helps manage updates)
- Composer
Before you begin
Check the Ubuntu version.
lsb_release -ds
# Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Create a new non-root user account with sudo access and switch to it.
adduser johndoe --gecos "John Doe"
usermod -aG sudo johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe with your username.
Set up the timezone.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
Ensure that your system has been updated.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Install the necessary packages.
sudo apt install -y curl git mcrypt build-essential
Install PHP
Install PHP and necessary PHP extensions.
sudo apt install -y php7.0 php7.0-cli php7.0-fpm php7.0-tidy php7.0-curl php7.0-ldap php7.0-mcrypt php7.0-gd php7.0-xml php7.0-zip php7.0-mysql php7.0-mbstring php7.0-common
Check the version.
php -v
Install MySQL
Install MySQL.
sudo apt install -y mysql-server
Check the version.
mysql --version
Run mysql_secure installation script to improve MySQL's security.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Connect to the MySQL shell as the root user.
mysql -u root -p
# Enter password:
Set up a new MySQL database and user, and remember the credentials.
CREATE DATABASE dbname;
GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Exit MySQL.
exit
Install Nginx
Install Nginx.
sudo apt install -y nginx
Check the version.
sudo nginx -v
Configure Nginx for BookStack. Run sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/bookstack.conf and populate the file with the following.
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/bookstack/public;
index index.php index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_index index.php;
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
}
Activate the new bookstack.conf configuration by linking the file to the sites-enabled directory.
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/bookstack.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
Test the configuration.
sudo nginx -t
Reload Nginx.
sudo systemctl reload nginx.service
Install Composer
Install Composer.
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '544e09ee996cdf60ece3804abc52599c22b1f40f4323403c44d44fdfdd586475ca9813a858088ffbc1f233e9b180f061') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
php composer-setup.php
php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Check the version.
composer --version
Install BookStack
Create a document root folder.
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/bookstack
Change ownership of the /var/www/bookstack directory to johndoe.
sudo chown -R johndoe:johndoe /var/www/bookstack
Clone the release branch of the BookStack GitHub repository into the document root folder.
cd /var/www/bookstack
git clone https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack.git --branch release --single-branch .
Run the composer install command from the /var/www/bookstack directory.
composer install
Copy the .env.example file to .env and populate it with your own database and mail details.
cp .env.example .env
Ensure that the storage, bootstrap/cache and public/uploads folders are writable by the web server.
In the application root, run the following command.
php artisan key:generate
This will generate a unique application key.
Run php artisan migrate to update the database.
Change ownership of the /var/www/bookstack directory to www-data.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/bookstack
You can now login using the default admin details [email protected] with a password of password. It is recommended to change these details directly after your first login.
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