Installing BookStack on Ubuntu Server 22.04 with HTTPS

In this video we install BookStack on a fresh Ubuntu server 22.04 VPS instance, creating the Digital Ocean droplet from scratch, then add HTTPS support on our instance using Certbot.

0:00 Intro & Environment
1:19 Creating the Server
3:40 Pointing our Domain
4:24 Accessing the Server
5:12 Installing BookStack
9:20 First BookStack Use
10:49 Adding HTTPS Support
17:10 Updating BookStack APP_URL
19:57 Fixing Mixed Content
23:50 A Note on Security
25:00 Support and Outro

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[BookStackApp]

Just a note on using the smallest 512MB RAM machine sizes, Modern Ubuntu and MySQL setups have trouble installing and starting on this amount of RAM.
You can still make it work but you'd need to add SWAP space before running the install script:

[jimsmith]

Excellent tutorial! I have had many different ideas of possible use cases for bookstack. I will be looking forward to getting it set up so that I can see if any of my ideas bear fruit! Thanks again for a great FOSS project.

[melp]

This is so cool, thanks for the info. I had installed bookstack with the script, but was unable to find any instructions to make the site https, until I came across your instructions. I would have never known about fixing the .env file. Thanks!!

[darkmatter]

Really glad to use this Software thanks a lot man !

[JasonsLabVideos]

Thank you for this !! Awesome video !!

[aimeiradukunda]

I’m having trouble with installing and accessing the GUI of BookStack on both Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04. I’m using a script for the installation, but the progress seems to get stuck, climbing from 5/9 to 9/9 without completing. I’ve tried reinstalling more than 5 times on a fresh VM for each version, but the issue persists. Could anyone provide support or suggestions on how to overcome this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[moogleworks]

How can I add my email for notifications?

[XOvidius]

Very nice work. Just a question. How can I enable HTTPS with certificates from local pfsense CA instead of Let's encrypt?

[nns]

Awesome guide, thanks. Quick question before I start install process, this video for Ubuntu which is year old and scripted install is straight forward but then I also watched most recent video on Debian 12 install and the steps shown are not same as Ubuntu you went through quite a few changes just to get the software installed and get the site working, is that due to manual install process vs scripted? or is only meant for Debian?

[SupportSquirrel]

So...how is this done with self-signed certificates? I have an offline CA at home for my domain and created the CSR, signed everything and even have the key...so how do I enable SSL/HTTPS

[RastrojeroDiesel]

I installed just as you did but using local IP, but when I use a browser to go there, "This page isn't working" :(

[claytonblack]

I got to the end of the "installing bookstack" section of the video, but unfortunately the page that pulls up when I clicked on the URL was a blank white page. I only paid for the domain and droplet about 10 minutes before doing the following steps and also went with the $4 plan since I'm only testing. Should I just wait it out and it needs more time to register on the domain side?

[mobilemike]

no need to have a fixe IP local on the server ?

[andreasknoche]

Bookstack looks great and I really would like to install. But the installation unfortunately fails for me: Scripts runs through until the end, but in the logs there is a mysql-error: "[ERROR] [MY-010946] [Server] Failed to start mysqld daemon. Check mysqld error log."
Checking the mysql error-log I find: 2022-08-10T15:11:14.132121Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-012962] [InnoDB] The redo log file ./#innodb_redo/#ib_redo5 size 2531328 is not a multiple of innodb_page_size.
I used a pristine 22.04 in an LXC Container.... Any idea what I did wrong?

[xXEagleyXx]

Everything worked just fine as your's through this process but my site never fixed itself like yours did when adding the https cert.
If my url in my .env file stays https, the page wont load. But if I change it back to HTTP, it works fine. Any thoughts?

[isuruliyanage]

can I install bookstack when hestia cp installed in the server?

[bootifulghost]

Great tutorial, just curious is there a performance difference btw. Docker and a normal Ubuntu install?

[wolffame]

I got a WHITESCREEN from a fresh install of ubuntu22.04 and was updated.

[agardasevic]

If someone is using this manual to install BookStack on local network (or as a VM), don't forget to put DNS record of BookStack server on your client machine, otherwise the page won't load.