Preparation

This is where the service will store its own application data and ensures we can quickly update the service image.

Ensure your user has permissions to access the folder.

This is the current time zone formatted using the tz database.

For example: America/Vancouver

This is the numeric ID of the user account on Debian.  If you are unsure, open a terminal and run:

id -u

This is the numeric ID of the user account's group on Debian.  If you are unsure, open a terminal and run:

id -g

This is the username to be used for logging into the database.

For example: bookstack_admin

This is the URL you will be accessing the service through.  This can be the local address or the domain name.

This configures which websites can be embedded with your BookStack.

Recommended: "https://*.draw.io https://*.youtube.com https://*.youtube-nocookie.com https://*.vimeo.com"

This is the password that will be used for root access to the database.

It is important to use secure, randomly generated password.

You can use a random alphanumeric string from a password manager, or open the terminal and run the command:

tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'\''()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~' </dev/urandom | head -c 32; echo

This pulls a random string from the 'urandom' device, removes unwanted characters and trim it to an appropriate length.