Installation Guide

A quality version of this page, approved on 19 September 2019, was based off this revision.

We are happy that you decided to install the latest version of BlueSpice, our innovative and feature-packed wiki system. Carefully follow our step-by-step instructions, and BlueSpice will be up and running in no time!

After checking your system requirements and preparing your server environment, you will install the BlueSpice application and optionally tweak your configuration to improve your system performance so that your users can enjoy working with their new wiki.

Prerequesites

Before installing BlueSpice 3, review that you meet all system requirements and that your server environment is ready. If you need to set up a server environment first, we provide detailed instructions here:

Check the system requirements
Prepare your system for the BlueSpice installation.
To set up your server environment, follow the step-by-step instructions or read our quick reference:
- Linux
- Windows

Installing BlueSpice 3

Please select which installation type you need:

Quick reference: Configuration, services, and optimization

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:

Services and system configuration

Linux
- Introduction
- Apache und PHP
- MariaDB
- Jetty
- Elasticsearch
- Node.js
- Parsoid
- Python
- Memcached
- Texvc (BlueSpice pro only)
- PhantomJS
Windows
- Introduction
- IIS Web Server
- Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
- PHP Manager
- PHP 7.3
- MariaDB
- OpenJDK
- Apache Tomcat
- Elasticsearch
- Git
- Node.js
- Parsoid
- Python
- PhantomJS (BlueSpice pro only)

Webservices for Apache Tomcat

PDF-Export
VisualDiff (BlueSpice pro only)
LatexRenderer (BlueSpice pro only)

Additional settings and optimizations

Security settings

Compendium