Setup:Installation Guide

Note:For general questions regarding the installation, maintenance, and usage of BlueSpice free, go to our SourceForge help forum .

Introduction

We are happy that you decided to install the latest version of BlueSpice 4.

Please follow these steps:

1. Check the system requirements
2. Prepare the server environment
3. Install the BlueSpice application
4. Optimize the configuration

Check the system requirements

• System requirements

Prepare the server environment

• Linux server environment
• Windows server environment

Install the BlueSpice application

Please select which installation type you need:

• Full BlueSpice installation
  • Extended Functions: VisualEditor, ExtendedSearch
• BlueSpice WikiFarm installation
• Docker image

Upgrade and patch updates

• Upgrade from BlueSpice free 3.2.x to BlueSpice pro 4.1.x
• Upgrade from Bluespice free 4.1.x to pro 4.1.x

Migration from MediaWiki to BlueSpice

• Migration from MediaWiki to BlueSpice

Optimize the configuration

If you don't need to set up a server environment "from scratch", you can directly refer to the setup instructions for individual system components. Just make sure that you really have everything configured as needed:

Webservices for Apache Tomcat

• PDF-Export

Additional settings and optimizations

• Caching
• Cronjobs
• Time Zone

Security settings

• File System Permissions
• Deactivating installcheck file
• Save Directories
  

Compendium

• Maintenance scripts
• Maintenance scripts/BlockInactiveUsers
• Maintenance scripts/CreatePDF
• Maintenance scripts/DumpNamespaces
• Maintenance scripts/batchStabilize
• Maintenance scripts/executeTransfer
• Server configuration for CollabPads

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