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  • Azure· soonComing soon on Microsoft Azure
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BookStack Wiki and Documentation

BookStack 26.05.4 - a simple, self-hosted wiki organised as books, chapters and pages - on Apache, PHP 8.3 and MySQL 8.0 with phpMyAdmin and Webmin. Ships empty and ready for your first book; APP_URL follows your public IP automatically, and the Laravel encryption key is unique to your instance. Also available on Azure with the identical stack.

Version
v26.05.4
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Architecture
x86_64
Support
Community

What's installed

Every package and version on the image, identical on every cloud it ships on. Nothing else is installed.

  • BookStack 26.05.4
  • Apache 2.4.58
  • PHP 8.3.33
  • MySQL 8.0.46
  • phpMyAdmin 5.2.3
  • Webmin 2.660
  • Composer 2.10.3

Licensing — Open source (MIT), no licence key required

Deploy anywhere

BookStack Wiki and Documentation on AWS and Azure.

Google Cloud is next on the roadmap. One clean-room build, one first-boot credential model, one patch cadence — identical on every cloud you run. Every identifier below is the real one; copy it and launch.

  1. AWS
    Coming soon

    Amazon Web Services

    AMI · v26.05.4

    AWS AMI ID

    ami-075a756a314c08f56
    Released
    September 5, 2026
    Root volume
    gp3 · 12 GiB

    Instance types

    • t3a.medium
    • t3.medium
    • t3a.large
    • m6a.large

    Regions

    • us-east-1
    AWS launch steps
  2. Azure
    Coming soon

    Microsoft Azure

    Compute Gallery image · v26.05.4

    Azure Compute Gallery image ID

    …/galleries/provencloud/images/bookstack/versions/2026.9.2
    Released
    September 13, 2026
    OS disk
    Premium_LRS · 30 GiB
    Gallery
    provencloud
    Definition
    bookstack
    Resource group
    provencloud-images-rg

    VM sizes

    • Standard_D2as_v7
    • Standard_D2as_v5
    • Standard_B2ms
    • Standard_D4as_v7

    Regions

    • eastus
    Azure launch steps
AWS

Getting started on Amazon Web Services

From launch to signed in, step by step.

  1. Launch in us-east-1 with TCP 22, 80 and 8000 open; wait five minutes for first boot.

  2. Open http://<instance-public-ip>/ and sign in with the email admin@example.com - BookStack signs in with an email, not a username. phpMyAdmin: /phpmyadmin (username root). Webmin: port 8000 (username admin). The password for all three is your EC2 Instance ID (for example i-0123456789abcdef0).

  3. SSH as ubuntu with your key pair. Change passwords with sudo bash /home/ubuntu/iscripts/pass_bookstack.sh, pass_mysql.sh or pass_webmin.sh.

  4. A stop/start or new Elastic IP is picked up within five minutes with no action. Set your own domain as APP_URL and it is never overwritten.

Security posture

What this AWS image does and does not ship with, one fact per line.

  • Clean-room build on Canonical's official Ubuntu 24.04 LTS image: every component comes from its own official repository or release, nothing is copied from any third-party image, and the finished image was scanned for third-party vendor strings before capture.

  • No usable credential ships in the image; passwords are set on your instance at first boot from EC2 instance metadata (IMDSv2) and the scripts that set them delete themselves afterwards.

  • SSH is key-only, root login over SSH is refused, and build-time SSH keys, shell history and logs were removed before imaging.

  • Every customer instance regenerates its own BookStack APP_KEY (the Laravel encryption key) and its own 32-byte phpMyAdmin cookie key on first boot, so no encryption key is shared between instances launched from this image.

  • The BookStack admin, MySQL root and Webmin passwords are set per instance; the MySQL maintenance credential file is stripped.

  • Composer was verified against its official SHA-384 signature.

  • MySQL is loopback-only and Apache serves HTTP only with mod_rewrite for BookStack's clean URLs.

  • Verified on a fresh instance including a stop/start regression.

  • The bundled password tools enforce at least 10 characters with upper- and lower-case letters, a number and a symbol, and verify the new credential with a real sign-in before reporting success.

  • The image is HTTP-only by design so it works at a bare IP with no certificate warnings: terminate TLS at a load balancer or add a certificate before exposing it publicly, and restrict port 22 and any admin ports to trusted IP ranges in your security group.

Azure

Getting started on Microsoft Azure

From launch to signed in, step by step.

  1. Deploy the gallery image in eastus with TCP 22, 80 and 8000 open in your network security group. Choose ubuntu as the administrator username so SSH and the script paths match. Wait five minutes for first boot.

  2. Open http://<vm-public-ip>/ and sign in with the email admin@example.com - BookStack signs in with an email, not a username. phpMyAdmin: /phpmyadmin (username root). Webmin: port 8000 (username admin).

  3. The password for all three is your VM ID: in the Azure portal open the virtual machine, choose Properties and copy VM ID - a 36-character value such as 02aab8a4-74ef-476e-8182-f6d2ba4166a6, typed exactly as shown in lower case.

  4. SSH as ubuntu with your key. Change passwords with sudo bash ~/iscripts/pass_bookstack.sh, pass_mysql.sh or pass_webmin.sh.

  5. A new public IP is picked up within about two minutes with no reboot. Set your own domain as APP_URL and it is never overwritten.

Security posture

What this Azure image does and does not ship with, one fact per line.

  • Clean-room build on Canonical's official Ubuntu 24.04 LTS image from the Azure Marketplace: every component comes from its own official source, no reference image was used (none exists on Azure), and the image was scanned for third-party vendor strings before capture.

  • Nothing guessable ships in the image: the pre-image cleanup randomises the MySQL root, application and BookStack admin passwords and the Webmin admin, blanks APP_URL and strips the MySQL maintenance credential; first boot then sets everything from the new VM's own vmId read from Azure IMDS, and regenerates the BookStack APP_KEY and the phpMyAdmin cookie key so no encryption key is shared between deployments.

  • The ubuntu login account ships password-locked with an empty authorized_keys, and cloud-init installs your own SSH key at deploy time.

  • MySQL is loopback-only and Apache serves HTTP only.

  • Verified on a brand-new VM from the gallery version - 39 checks including a stop/start and a public-IP-change regression - and the image was recaptured once to guarantee it ships with an empty wiki.

  • The bundled password tools enforce at least 10 characters with upper- and lower-case letters, a number and a symbol, and verify the new credential with a real sign-in before reporting success.

  • The image is HTTP-only by design so it works at a bare IP with no certificate warnings: terminate TLS at a load balancer or add a certificate before exposing it publicly, and restrict port 22 and any admin ports to trusted IP ranges in your security group.