Installation Guide

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

1. 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

2. Check the system requirements

• System requirements

3. Prepare the server environment

• Linux server environment
• Windows server environment (currently being revised)

4. Install the BlueSpice application

Please select which installation type you need:

• Full BlueSpice 3 installation with Installer
  • Extended Functions: VisualEditor, ExtendedSearch

5. 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

6. Migration from MediaWiki to BlueSpice

• Migration from MediaWiki to BlueSpice

7. 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:

7.1. Webservices for Apache Tomcat

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

7.2. Additional settings and optimizations

• Caching
• Cronjobs
• Time Zone

7.3. Security settings

• File System Permissions
• Deactivating installcheck file
• Save Directories
  

7.4. Compendium

• Backup
• Configuration Folder settings.d
• ExtendedSearch Configuration
• Folder structure under Windows
• Maintenance scripts
• Maintenance scripts/batchStabilize
• Maintenance scripts/dumpPDF
• Maintenance scripts/executeTransfer
• Maintenance scripts/export
• Performance Optimization
• Performance Optimization/ManualRecache
• Performance Optimization/MySQL
• Performance Optimization/PHP
• Server configuration for CollabPads
• VisualEditor Configuration
• Windows Folder Structure

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