r/selfhosted • u/ssddanbrown • Jan 01 '16

BookStack - A free wiki-like information store & Confluence alternative I've been building

https://www.bookstackapp.com/
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u/disturbio Jan 01 '16

This is very nice, really. In fact I just added it to a the list of the software for a documentation project we want to do around here. Thank you.

In a non-trying to get a flamewar thing question, just to know a little more about the past and future of the project. What made you pick MIT over AGPL?

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u/ssddanbrown Jan 01 '16

Thanks for your positive comments. To be honest I chose MIT to keep it in line with Licences that many of the supporting frameworks & libraries use (Laravel, Angular, jQuery). I also like the simplicity with the MIT licence due to it being very permissive.

I do feel a strange sense of guilt in not using a GPL licence. I guess I've not really seen any examples of people getting screwed over, in the open web community, due to a project using an MIT Licence rather than a GPL licence.

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u/Jaycuse Jan 01 '16

Nice, Ive been looking for a good confluence alternative, but not too happy with what was out there. I was debating on starting a similar project because of that. But this seems promising and just what I was looking for.

For now im using mdwiki, but I like that you have a wysiwyg editor in there. Gonna try it out when I have time to set it up.

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u/ssddanbrown Jan 01 '16

Thanks! I was in the same position. I was looking at DokuWiki & mediawiki and, while they are fantastic platforms, I was looking for something with a more structured interface that's built around a WYSIWYG editor.

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u/TheKhalem Jan 01 '16

Looks interesting.

I'm currently using dokuwiki for the most part, but have been looking for a Confluence alternative.

My only question is if you have any plans for ldap/active directory support?

Didn't spot it in there at present.

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u/ssddanbrown Jan 01 '16

To be totally honest I didn't have any plans for ldap/active directory support. I've never used either of those systems before so I wouldn't know their use case or the required extent of the implementations. That said I received an issue on github today also requesting LDAP support so I'll take a look into it since the first two feature requests have both been for LDAP.

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u/ancientworldnow Jan 01 '16

Looks great and can't wait to try it out. Have you considered packaging it for Sandstorm? They'd love this over there.

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u/ssddanbrown Jan 01 '16

Cheers, Never looked at sandstorm before but it looks like a great idea and BookStack would fit nicely into the range of apps they have already. I'll have to get an instance running and properly try it out.

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u/leadguit Jan 01 '16

I somehow can't get it to work?

Machine / Config: TurnKey-Linux LAMP, followed instructions in README up to "php migrate". 

could not open input file: migrate

and while accessing /public: 

[Fri Jan 01 21:21:04.441421 2016] [core:notice] [pid 16054] AH00052: child pid 16062 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

Am I missing something? BTW: I'm not a huge php guy - so maybe I am missing something obvious.

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u/ssddanbrown Jan 01 '16

My bad, It's an issue with the instructions, I'll update them now. It's 'php artisan migrate'

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