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Herr Knedel/Great things with containers: Own Bookstack Wiki on Synology Diskstation

Created Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Modified Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:09:12 +0000 Difficulty level: Can be done by anyone

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Bookstack is an “open source” alternative to MediaWiki or Confluence. Today I show how to install a Bookstack service on the Synology Diskstation.

Option for professionals

Of course, as an experienced Synology user, you can log in right away with SSH and install the whole setup via Docker Compose file.

version: '3'
services:
  bookstack:
    image: solidnerd/bookstack:0.27.4-1
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    links:
      - database
    environment:
      DB_HOST: database:3306
      DB_DATABASE: my_wiki
      DB_USERNAME: wikiuser
      DB_PASSWORD: my_wiki_pass
      
  database:
    image: mariadb
    restart: always
    volumes:
       - ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: my_wiki_pass1
      MYSQL_DATABASE: my_wiki
      MYSQL_USER: wikiuser
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: my_wiki_pass

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Step 1: Prepare bookstack folder

I create a new directory named “wiki” in the Docker directory.

Step 2: Install database

After that, a database needs to be created. I click on the “Registration” tab in the Synology Docker window and search for “mariadb”. I select the Docker image “mariadb” and then click on the tag “latest”.

After the image download, the image is available as an image. Docker distinguishes between 2 states, container “dynamic state” and image (fixed state). Before we now create a container from the image, a few settings must be made.I double-click on my mariadb image. After that I click on “Advanced settings” and activate the “Automatic restart”. I select the “Volume” tab and click on “Add Folder”. There I create a new database folder with this mount path “/var/lib/mysql”. Under “Port Settings” all ports are deleted. This means that I select the “3306” port and delete it with the “-” button.
Variable name Value What is it?
TZ Europe/Berlin Time zone
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD my_wiki_pass Master password of the database.
MYSQL_DATABASE my_wiki This is the database name.
MYSQL_USER wikiuser User name of the wiki database.
MYSQL_PASSWORD my_wiki_pass Password of the wiki database user.
Finally, I enter these environment variables:See: After these settings Mariadb server can be started! I press “Apply” everywhere.

Step 3: Install Bookstack

I click on the “Registration” tab in the Synology Docker window and search for “bookstack”. I select the Docker image “solidnerd/bookstack” and then click on the tag “latest”.

I double-click on my Bookstack image. Then I click on “Advanced Settings” and activate the “Automatic Restart” here as well. I assign fixed ports for the “bookstack” container. Without fixed ports it could be that the “bookstack server” runs on another port after a restart. The first container port can be deleted. The other port should be remembered. Also, a “link” to the “mariadb” container still needs to be created. I click on the “Links” tab and select the database container. The alias name should be remembered well for the wiki installation.
Variable name Value What is it?
TZ Europe/Berlin Time zone
DB_HOST wiki-db:3306 Alias / Container link
DB_DATABASE my_wiki Data from step 2
DB_USERNAME wikiuser Data from step 2
DB_PASSWORD my_wiki_pass Data from step 2
Finally, I enter these environment variables:See: The container can now be started. It may take some time to create the database. The behavior can be observed via the container details. I call the Bookstack server with the Synology IP address and my container port. The login name is “admin@admin.com” and the password is “password”.