Hi everyone,

i just registered here to say thank you for this awesome step-by-step tutorial!
I use bookstack in my virtualbox VM with NAT network settings and i just had to use "#" for "APP_URL" in order to use http://localhost inside of the VM.

One big problem i have is the maintenance. In order to backup the database i have to use the MariaDB root password, which somehow isn't the one i used to install bookstack. Whenever i try to change the root password my database gets wrecked so hard that i have to restore old snapshots in order to systemctl start mariadb again.

i stoped mariadb then used mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & and then connected to mysql and changed the root password with SQL statements. After that the database is unusable.

Any idea?

Greets and hello everyone

My name is Pete and I am mainly interested in Fedora workflows and everything around Fedora Linux in general.
I will look out for more and help whenever i can.

It worked! I have access to my root user for the DB again. I could not kill the process the way it was described on the website, but i could search with ps -auxww and found the PID to use kill for.

I am not really sure if i did "composer install" as root or not. Just in case i made the mistake to install with the root user, is there any way to fix that or is it worth the time to reinstall everything just with a normal account without sudo and without root?

Okay thanks alot. I am just scared about some "major" mistakes, since bookstack will end up being my private documentation for... well... everything.

@black3dynamite it worked. I used the uninstall.sh for vBoxGuestAdditions before upgrading and this time everything worked.
But there are no "Default Fedora 28 vBoxGuestAdditions" to be found in the new version.
I will probably have to reinstall it like i used to do.

Edit: reinstalling the vboxguestadditions broke Fedora 28 again... sigh..

Edit2: lsmod | grep -i vbox
gives me a list of active vbox modules. "vboxguest" and "vboxvideo" can be found but the one missing is "vboxsf" which is needed for sharing folders and so on. I couldn't find anyone else except me with that problem yet. Really odd.

Edit3: I finally got this thing to work again, yuchee
For everyone who is experiencing the same issue as i did you have to do the following:

1. Before upgrading to Fedora 28 use uninstall.sh to uninstall your current guest additions.
2. Upgrade Fedora like explained above
3. After upgrading make sure your "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" is up-to-date in ver: 5.2.10r122406
   Download: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
4. Install/update it > Virtualbox > Settings > Additional Packages
5. boot the Fedora 28 Guest and log in.
6. Double check if your virtualboxguestadditions.iso file is up-to-date aswell.
   If not you will need to replace that file prior to mounting the CD-Drive.
   Download: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.10/
   The file you need is this one: VBoxGuestAdditions_5.2.10.iso
7. Mount the drive into your Fedora 28 Guest and install it.
8. Reboot > done.

Source: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17678

@scottalanmiller I have to admit.... Jira is the worst piece of sh*t i've ever witnessed
Luckily i was able to switch the internal Customer Service ticket system to osTicket.