Installing BookStack on Debian 12 (Bookworm) with HTTPS

In this video I go through the manual installation steps to get a working BookStack setup running on Debian 12 Bookworm.
At the time of recording, BookStack v23.06.2 is the latest version of BookStack.
This uses MariaDB as a database, and Apache as the web-server.
Certbot is used to fetch and install a HTTPS certificate.

Note that this guide only shows the process of installing BookStack on Debian, not the full process of setting up a fully security hardened environment nor the steps you may need to update & maintain your BookStack instance.

► Debian Website: https://www.debian.org/
► BookStack Website: https://www.bookstackapp.com/
► BookStack Install Docs: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/adm...
► Composer Download: https://getcomposer.org/download/
► BookStack Filesystem Permissions Guidance: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/adm...
► BookStack Discord:   / discord  
► Follow BookStack on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@bookstack
► Follow BookStack on Twitter:   / bookstack_app  
► Follow me on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@danb

0:00 Intro and environment
1:37 Installing requirements
5:34 Git & composer steps
6:44 .env file & database setup
10:44 File system permissions
13:28 App key and Apache config
16:24 Database migrations & access failure
17:35 Debugging tangent & adjusting Apache
19:03 First access & test
19:49 Adding HTTPS with Certbot
23:38 Updating content for HTTPS
25:46 Outro

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