Users of version 24.2.3 should switch to 24.2.3-1 (or higher); a maintainer erroneously set image tag 24.2.3 to use 23.2.3 as the release.

Versions higher than 23.6.2 no longer use an in-container .env file for environment variable management. Instead, the preferred approach is to manage them directly with the container runtime (e.g. Docker's -e). This is to simplify troubleshooting if and when errors occur. The most important change is that ${APP_KEY} is no longer provided for you, instead it is up to the operator to ensure this value is present. Versions prior to this supplied ${APP_KEY} (with a default of SomeRandomStringWith32Characters. A full reference of available environment variables is available in the Bookstack repository

The version 23.6.0 is broken due to a bad .env configuration created by the entrypoint script. This is fixed in version 23.6.0-1.

In 0.28.0 we changed the container http port from 80 to 8080 to allow root privileges to be dropped

In 0.12.2 we removed DB_PORT . You can now specify the port via DB_HOST like DB_HOST=mysql:3306

With Docker Compose is a Quickstart very easy. Run the following command:

docker compose up

and after that open your Browser and go to http://localhost:8080 . You can login with username admin@admin.com and password password.

If you have any issues feel free to create an issue on GitHub.

Note that if you want to use LDAP, $ has to be escape like \$, i.e. -e "LDAP_USER_FILTER"="(&(uid=\${user}))"

Networking changed in Docker v1.9, so you need to do one of the following steps.

1. MySQL Container:

   docker run -d \
   -p 3306:3306 \
   -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret \
   -e MYSQL_DATABASE=bookstack \
   -e MYSQL_USER=bookstack \
   -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret \
   --name bookstack_db \
   mysql:5.7.21

2. BookStack Container:

   docker run -d --link bookstack_db_:mysql \
   -p 8080:8080 \
   --name bookstack_24.12.0 \
   solidnerd/bookstack:24.12.0

1. Create a shared network:

   docker network create bookstack_nw

2. Run MySQL container :

   docker run -d --net bookstack_nw  \
   -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret \
   -e MYSQL_DATABASE=bookstack \
   -e MYSQL_USER=bookstack \
   -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret \
    --name="bookstack_db" \
    mysql:5.7.21

3. Run BookStack Container

   docker run -d --net bookstack_nw \
   -e DB_HOST=bookstack_db:3306 \
   -e DB_DATABASE=bookstack \
   -e DB_USERNAME=bookstack \
   -e DB_PASSWORD=secret \
   -e APP_URL=http://example.com \
   -p 8080:8080 \
   --name="bookstack_24.12.0" \
    solidnerd/bookstack:24.12.0

   The APP_URL parameter should be the base URL for your BookStack instance without a trailing slash. For example:

   APP_URL=http://example.com

   The following environment variables are required for Bookstack to start:

   • APP_KEY
   • APP_URL
   • DB_HOST (in the form ${hostname_or_ip_address}:${port})
   • DB_DATABASE
   • DB_USERNAME
   • DB_PASSWORD

To access your .env file and important bookstack folders on your host system change <HOST> in the following line to your host directory and add it then to your run command:

--mount type=bind,source=<HOST>/.env,target=/var/www/bookstack/.env \
-v <HOST>:/var/www/bookstack/public/uploads \
-v <HOST>:/var/www/bookstack/storage/uploads

In case of a windows host machine the .env file has to be already created in the host directory otherwise a folder named .env will be created.

After these steps you can visit http://localhost:8080. You can login with username admin@admin.com and password password.

This is a fork of Kilhog/docker-bookstack. Kilhog did the intial work, but I want to go in a different direction.