BookStackApp
Code instead of wiki pages
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Describe the Scenario
I already did several updates of my nice bookstack installation, but this time when updating to 25.02.5 things went wrong. If I now open my wiki URL, I'm getting redirected to
https://wiki.my-domain.com/login
and this page looks like this:
`@extends('layouts.simple') @section('content')
{{ Str::title(trans('auth.log_in')) }} @include('auth.parts.login-message') @include('auth.parts.login-form-' . $authMethod) @if(count($socialDrivers) > 0) @foreach($socialDrivers as $driver => $name) @icon('auth/' . $driver) {{ trans('auth.log_in_with', ['socialDriver' => $name]) }} @endforeach @endif @if(setting('registration-enabled') && config('auth.method') === 'standard') {{ trans('auth.dont_have_account') }} @endif @stop`
Any idea how to restore my wiki?
If not: it's not a major issue. I do have a plenty of backups of the VM running the wiki.
Exact BookStack Version
25.02.5
Log Content
No helpful entries
Hosting Environment
Debian 12 (bookworm) VM served by Proxmox apache 2.4.62 php 8.3.21 Proxy: Nginx Proxy Manager
Hi @Jens-TGS, This usually occurs when there's an issue with file permissions of certain files/folders. I've advise:
- Follow our guidance to reset the needed file and folder permissions for your BookStack instance: https://www.bookstackapp.com/docs/admin/filesystem-permissions/
- Delete any files ending in
.phpthat exist in thebootstrap/cachefolder relative to your BookStack install location.
Dear Dan,
thanks a lot for the quick advices. I did follow them, unfortunately they did not solve my issue.
Here is how the /var/www/bookstack folder looks like at the moment:
root@mywiki:/var/www/bookstack# ls -al
total 2063
drwxr-xr-x 16 www-data www-data 42 May 26 22:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 5 May 27 06:23 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 5928 May 26 22:28 .env
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 4904 Dec 3 2022 .env.bak
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1665 May 26 22:33 .env.example
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 13938 May 26 22:33 .env.example.complete
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 4988 Aug 27 2024 .env.lmn-ldap
drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 15 May 26 22:33 .git
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 61 May 26 22:33 .gitattributes
drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 8 May 26 22:33 .github
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 461 May 26 22:33 .gitignore
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1122 May 26 22:33 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x 23 www-data www-data 23 Mar 3 20:14 app
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1685 May 26 22:33 artisan
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 388792 May 26 22:33 bookstack-system-cli
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 5 May 26 22:33 bootstrap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 3656 May 26 22:33 composer.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 380388 May 26 22:33 composer.lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 2799637 Aug 21 2022 composer.phar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 304 May 26 22:33 crowdin.yml
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 6 May 26 22:33 database
drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 8 Apr 14 23:07 dev
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1370 May 26 22:33 docker-compose.yml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1689 May 26 22:33 eslint.config.mjs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 6833 May 26 22:33 jest.config.ts
drwxr-xr-x 53 www-data www-data 53 Mar 3 20:14 lang
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 333307 May 26 22:33 package-lock.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 2439 May 26 22:33 package.json
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1967 Apr 5 2024 pakete-nicht-debian.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 1045 May 26 22:33 phpcs.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 465 May 26 22:33 phpstan.neon.dist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 3154 May 26 22:33 phpunit.xml
drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 20 May 26 22:33 public
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 14569 May 26 22:33 readme.md
drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 6 Mar 26 2023 resources
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4 May 26 22:33 routes
drwxrwxr-x 9 www-data www-data 9 May 6 2023 storage
drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data www-data 31 May 26 22:33 tests
drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 3 May 26 22:33 themes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 640 May 26 22:33 tsconfig.json
drwxr-xr-x 48 www-data www-data 49 May 26 22:33 vendor
-rwxr-xr-x 1 www-data www-data 9 May 26 22:33 version
Any other ideas about the root cause?
BR, Jens
Ah, okay.
- What is the full output of running
git statusfrom your BookStack install folder? - What is the full output of running
git log -n 1from your BookStack install folder? - What is the full output of running
ls -alh bootstrap/cachefrom your BookStack install folder? - What is the full output of running
ls -alh storage/framework/views | headfrom your BookStack install folder? - Can you re-run each of the update commands, and share the full output of each?
Also, possibly related to #5433. Worth checking your PHP packages are updated and aligned, as from that thread the finding was that differing package versions could lead to this. Could be likely in this case since it looks like you're not just using standard debian packages for PHP (I'm assuming deb sury packages?).
Thanks a lot for your posts. I really do appreciate your support.
I did read #5433, but did not get any advice how to proceed here. Yes, my PHP packages are deb sury packages:
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.list
deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ bookworm main
And everything is up to date (and was also before):
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# apt update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
Coming to your first post from today. Here are the requested outputs:
From git status I believe all files are modified (output truncated):
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data git status
On branch release
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/release'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: .env.example
modified: .env.example.complete
modified: .gitattributes
modified: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
modified: .github/FUNDING.yml
modified: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/api_request.yml
modified: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml
modified: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml
modified: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.yml
modified: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/language_request.yml
modified: .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/support_request.yml
modified: .github/SECURITY.md
modified: .github/translators.txt
modified: .github/workflows/analyse-php.yml
modified: .github/workflows/lint-js.yml
modified: .github/workflows/lint-php.yml
modified: .github/workflows/test-js.yml
modified: .github/workflows/test-migrations.yml
modified: .github/workflows/test-php.yml
modified: .gitignore
modified: LICENSE
modified: app/Access/Controllers/ConfirmEmailController.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/ForgotPasswordController.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/HandlesPartialLogins.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/LoginController.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/MfaBackupCodesController.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/MfaController.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/MfaTotpController.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/OidcController.php
modified: app/Access/Controllers/RegisterController.php
...
But if I do have a look at the details, just the access rights are modified:
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data git diff app/Access/Controllers/ConfirmEmailController.php
diff --git a/app/Access/Controllers/ConfirmEmailController.php b/app/Access/Controllers/ConfirmEmailController.php
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
Other requested outputs:
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data git log -n 1
commit 73f9834e6f591cd61115a31a44ba9a684c136390 (HEAD -> release, origin/release)
Author: Dan Brown <[email protected]>
Date: Sat May 17 12:16:55 2025 +0100
Updated version and assets for release v25.02.5
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# ls -alh bootstrap/cache
total 15K
drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 5 May 27 06:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 5 May 26 22:33 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 14 May 26 22:33 .gitignore
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 802 May 27 06:24 packages.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 22K May 27 06:24 services.php
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# ls -alh storage/framework/views | head
total 51K
drwxrwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 7 May 27 15:49 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 6 May 26 22:33 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 14 May 26 22:33 .gitignore
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 2.8K May 26 22:34 546f2f1017bec334b37dedb3f82bcfa3.php
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 2.5K May 27 15:49 a0effcbb5c1d35baf0ecb90d3e862545.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 1.3K May 26 22:34 ae53f06791072e4f2e88a01c5fb6687b.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 www-data www-data 1.4K May 26 22:35 e7236d2133250d3904f9a5019cd545f6.php
Run again update process:
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data git pull origin release
From https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack
* branch release -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up to date.
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data composer install --no-dev
> @php -r "!file_exists('bootstrap/cache/services.php') || @unlink('bootstrap/cache/services.php');"
Installing dependencies from lock file
Verifying lock file contents can be installed on current platform.
Nothing to install, update or remove
Generating optimized autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
> @php artisan package:discover --ansi
INFO Discovering packages.
laravel/socialite ........................................................................................................................... DONE
laravel/tinker .............................................................................................................................. DONE
nesbot/carbon ............................................................................................................................... DONE
nunomaduro/termwind ......................................................................................................................... DONE
socialiteproviders/manager .................................................................................................................. DONE
58 packages you are using are looking for funding.
Use the `composer fund` command to find out more!
> @php artisan cache:clear
INFO Application cache cleared successfully.
> @php artisan view:clear
INFO Compiled views cleared successfully.
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data php artisan migrate
APPLICATION IN PRODUCTION.
┌ Are you sure you want to run this command? ──────────────────┐
│ Yes │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
INFO Nothing to migrate.
Thanks @Jens-TGS for the detail. That's all looking generally fine though, no surprises. Gonna have to dig into things a little more.
- What's the output of running
php -r "echo token_get_all('cat')[0][0] === T_INLINE_HTML ? 'pass' : 'fail';"? - Are you confident that PHP running via apache is running via the same version as reported (which I assumed was confirmed via command line)?
- Just asking as multiple versions of PHP could potentially be in play in a scenario like this.
- How is PHP being ran via apache? PHP module, or via separate php-fpm process, or unknown?
- In the BookStack folder, can you run
git config core.fileMode falseto ignore file permission changes then re-confirm thegit statusoutput. Should be much reduced in output lines.
Of course, here are the requested additional details:
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data php -r "echo token_get_all('cat')[0][0] === T_INLINE_HTML ? 'pass' : 'fail';"
pass
I'm not the biggest expert in apache2 and which version it is running, but I believe, it is the reported version, since nothing else is installed:
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# dpkg -l | grep php
ii libapache2-mod-php8.3 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (Apache 2 module)
ii php-common 2:96+0~20250402.56+debian12~1.gbp84a5b7 all Common files for PHP packages
ii php8.3 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c all server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)
ii php8.3-cli 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language
ii php8.3-common 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 documentation, examples and common module for PHP
ii php8.3-curl 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 CURL module for PHP
ii php8.3-gd 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 GD module for PHP
ii php8.3-ldap 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 LDAP module for PHP
ii php8.3-mbstring 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 MBSTRING module for PHP
ii php8.3-mysql 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 MySQL module for PHP
ii php8.3-opcache 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 Zend OpCache module for PHP
ii php8.3-readline 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 readline module for PHP
ii php8.3-xml 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 DOM, SimpleXML, XML, and XSL module for PHP
ii php8.3-zip 8.3.21-1+0~20250509.62+debian12~1.gbpd2ac5c amd64 Zip module for PHP
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data git config core.fileMode false
root@wiki:/var/www/bookstack# sudo -u www-data git status
On branch release
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/release'.
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
.env.bak
.env.lmn-ldap
composer.phar
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
Thanks a lot for looking into my issue!
Thanks @Jens-TGS again for the clear responses.
All looks okay there too!
I was initially a bit suspicious of that different php-common package info, but looking at deb sury repo that looks fine.
I'm at a loss, not sure what further to (reasonably) check. At this stage, I might need to attempt replication of the same environment.
What architecture are you running here? Based upon being a proxmox based VM I'd assume standard x86_64? Just want to check though in case I'm assuming wrong.
Hi @ssddanbrown,
thanks again for having a look on my issue!
Yes, it is standard x86_64. What do you need?
BR Jens
Okay, I just tried to replicate this environment.
Debian 12 LXC container on proxmox with deb sury repo using apache and mod-php, with the exact same dpkg -l | grep php output.
No noticeable issues. Can't reproduce.
Makes me think it's more likely something specific to this environment and configuration. Not sure what to check next though.
Dear Dan, thanks for replicating my environment and rolling out the tests. In the meantime I reverted my wiki VM back to a state of an older backup and updated the bookstack app again. Now everything is working again. Data loss is small, since the wiki was not used often in the affected time slot. If you are interested to narrow down the issue ether way, I might be able to provide you a backup of the VM including the issue.
Dear Dan, I'm still facing this issue after each update. With 25.05.2 I did a complete re-installation of BookStack and restored a backup. Everything was working find then. But after updating to 25.07 today, again the start page looks like this:
@extends('layouts.tri') @section('body') @include('shelves.parts.list', ['shelves' => $shelves, 'view' => $view]) @stop @section('left') @include('home.parts.sidebar') @stop @section('right')
{{ trans('common.actions') }}
@if(user()->can('bookshelf-create-all')) [@icon('add') {{ trans('entities.shelves_new_action') }} ](https://wiki.my-page.de/%7B%7B%20url()@endif @include('entities.view-toggle', ['view' => $view, 'type' => 'bookshelves']) [@icon('tag') {{ trans('entities.tags_view_tags') }} ](https://wiki.tgs-freudenstadt.de/%7B%7B%20url('/tags')%20%7D%7D)@include('home.parts.expand-toggle', ['classes' => 'text-link', 'target' => '.entity-list.compact .entity-item-snippet', 'key' => 'home-details']) @include('common.dark-mode-toggle', ['classes' => 'icon-list-item text-link'])
@christophert
Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot! Jens
Hi @Jens-TGS,
Do you have any active customizations? Anything in the /var/www/bookstack/themes folder?
Some of that shared code looks kind of strange, like markdown has been mixed with template code, and I'm not sure where that would have come from.
Hi Dan,
thanks for your response. No, no active customizations. /var/www/bookstack/themesis empty except the .gitignore file. I also do have not much content in the wiki yet (mainly my IT stuff documentation).
My main question is: how do I get rid of this issue, if it seems, that the problem moves also, if I do a backup and restore in a fresh installation?
Any recommendations?
BR, Jens
@Jens-TGS Generally I've seen this occur when there's either file permission issues or php extension & extension lib version mismatches.
There's some really strange things though in both examples of what you have shared, which I would not expect at all.
For example, I don't know why there's the @christophert text, since that string does not appear in the repo, and is the username of someone who has previously contributed to the project.
@ssddanbrown That sounds really weired. Are you interested in narrowing down the issue or is your recommandation again a clean install and restoring a backup?
@ssddanbrown Any updates on this issue in the meantime? Still not able to update to a newer version here .. :-(
@Jens-TGS No, sorry.
Feel free to send a link to a VM backup file (where the issue exists) to my email (Shown when viewing my GitHub profile).
@ssddanbrown Thanks a lot for providing this opportunity. I just wanted to create the VM backup file for you. Installed bookstack version was 25.05.2. I did take a snapshot and tried to do the latest update to 25.07.3 to see, if my update issue is still reproducible. And: it is not. In the meantime I also rolled back to my snapshot and gave the new update process with bookstack-system-cli a chance and also this is working. Did you do any changes which could explain, that my issue seems to be gone in the meantime?
@Jens-TGS Good to hear things are working! No, Can't think of any changes which would affect this.
My gut instinct is that there was a bug or something odd/off in regards to a specific dependency in your environment, which has since been patched/changed/updated (or a process was using an old library in memory maybe).