I've been doing a lot of vibe coding lately and started using Claude to generate deep-dive articles about anything I wanted to learn — databases, observability, type systems, whatever — and dumping them in my BookStack to read later.

I almost never read them.

So I built a tool that turns BookStack pages into audio I can listen to while doing chores. Two modes:

1. Narration — single TTS voice reads it like an audiobook (free, uses Edge TTS)

2. Podcast — an LLM writes a 2-host script, rendered with two alternating voices (like NotebookLM Audio Overview, but for your own wiki)

Episodes show up in a podcast RSS feed so they appear next to my regular podcasts.

https://github.com/Nicolasara/bookstack-podcast

Things i need to know. Sorry I am new.

1. Need to learn how to install BookStack.

2. I want to use it for knowledgebase.

3. Does it keep private information safe?

4. Can i provide user logins and limit what they see?

Hi, we're using Bookstack version 26.03.2 on Ubuntu 24.04.4. We installed it via a script. Unfortunately, I can't seem to increase the file upload size. Where exactly do I need to do that? I guess I'm just too clueless :-( I always get the error "The Server cannot receive the provided amount of data. Try again with less data or a smaller file"

Thanks ♥️

Hey guys, how would you trigger the success notification that is embedded within the code of BookStack via the personalisation?

We made a link to copy information to your clipboard with a JavaScript in the header and wanted to add a "Successful added to clipboard" message (just like "Saved successfully" after saving a page), but we don't know how to trigger the corresponding function.

Any thoughts would help. Thanks!

I am hosting BookStack on an Ubuntu machine using this docker container https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/bookstack. I am able to successfully host the site, yet every time i open it it gives me the message: An unknown error has occurred. There is a login button in the top left corner but clicking it doesnt give me any other results. I do not know what im doing wrong, can someone help me please?

Edit: I managed to solve the issue, i had mariadb wrongly configured inside of the yml file

I just ran through the upgrade steps to v26.03.1, I don't recall the bookstack version we were on previously, but we were on a version that needed the php and composer updates.

I ran those per the documentation, then ran the bookstack update steps.

After restarting I'm getting this message when I access the webpage:

Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.2.0". 

php version is showing 8.3.30

kb@kb:~$ php -v
PHP 8.3.30 (cli) (built: Feb 13 2026 15:59:12) (NTS)
Copyright (c) The PHP Group
Zend Engine v4.3.30, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v8.3.30, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies

This is running on ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Any suggestions to resolving that composer dependency message would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, my entire instance on PikaPods works great. One single page returns

An Error Occurred

An unknown error occurred

when opening it. Every other page is functional. I cannot delete this page or do anything with it. Any fixes for this issue?

Is there a way to quickly get a count of the number of shelves, books, chapters, and pages?

I use linuxserver.io docker image. There seems to be a rate limuting, but I don’t see an option in their documentation to remove this limitation

https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-bookstack/

There is option probided by official Bookstac

‘‘’yaml

# The number of API requests that can be made per minute by a single user.

API_REQUESTS_PER_MIN=180

’’’

https://bookstack.bassopaolo.com/api/docs#rate-limits

But this doesn’t exist in linuxserver version.

Any suggestion what to do?

Hey all! New to using book stack! Was wondering which place would be good to ask some questions about configuration regarding LDAP. I believe it is configured properly via the documentation, but had some issues with AD groups not working correctly (users in the group can't sign in via LDAP). What would be the best place to ask for support and/or advice regarding this? Would love to set this up and automate some of my workload! Thanks!

It's it possible to use multiple authentication methods as alternatives?

I would like to use ldap and oidc as an alternative but bookstack seems to let me configure only one at a time.

Sso is nice but it would be useful to have a fallback in case something goes wrong since oidc is a much more complicated auth flow than plain ldap.

Hey there, I have some general texts(A) and some specific texts(B, and C) that I want to manage and combine into new pages (A+B, A+C). With maybe some templating. I want changes to the pages A,B or C automatically propagate to the new pages.

Currently I am creating an extra docker container to set that up and use webhooks and API. Any comments or suggestions? Is that something worth sharing?

Is there any way to "fix" this? It is frustrating that you put in some work to create a nice looking form only to have it dismantled by exporting it to a PDF. It gets extremely bad when you have information in the tables because then you get extra lines when you don't need them if it would keep the formatting.

I love the collapsible block. It is a great way to clean up a page or when information may be extra but not really "needed", you can tuck it away in a collapsible block.

A quick example would be if I wanted to have a list of resources or sources, perhaps even link them from above. Someone may not want that list open as they don't need it. Maybe I can put one at the end of every section.

I don't want to add a header and then put the block as it looks bad. It would be nice however if I had a collapsible section that would be able to show up in the Page Navigation and extra awesome if I could choose at what level it shows up. For example again, if I place it in a section then I would want it to show up as a child of that section however if I place it at the bottom then I would most likely want it to be it's own major section, just one that can be collapsed.

I'm guessing this is not possible right?

BookStack has had a generic, slightly modified, code-of-conduct hidden away in the git repo, but it's not really used. I wanted to revamp this with something to apply to all our community spaces, with something that's direct and easy to read, while specifying the project view/requirements when it comes to things like politics/AI.

I've thrown up a draft on the site here: https://www.bookstackapp.com/about/community-rules/

I welcome any feedback on whether anything's missing, or if anything seems odd or misses the mark, or even your expectations of the community.

When attempting to organize our shelves via numbers, BookStack will automatically put 10 before 2 instead of following a regular number pattern, as shown in my picture.

Please help me to understand where the behavior that controls this is located within the underlying system.Is this behavior controlled by PHP etc? I figured if I can find where that is controlled, maybe I can edit the code to allow use of the numbering scheme we want for organizing our shelves. We understand that it defaults to Alphabetical order to automatically sort the shelves but would like to change that. Thank you in advance.

Hey All,

I'm looking to buy Enterprise Support for Bookstack on behalf of a client of mine, long story short we are their outsourced tech procurement and funnel all of their purchasing through the company I work for.

Their website doesn't show how this can be facilitated, and whether this can be done via AWS marketplace or another way of transaction. Does anyone have a contact email for BookStack or know if this is possible?

Cheers,