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Expand Up @@ -98,19 +98,15 @@ Note that if you want to use LDAP, `$` has to be escape like `\$`, i.e. `-e "LDA

### Volumes

To access your `.env` file and important bookstack folders on your host system
change `<HOST>` in the following line to your host directory and add it then to
your run command:
To access your important bookstack folders on your host system change `<HOST>`
in the following line to your host directory and add it then to your run
command:

```bash
--mount type=bind,source=<HOST>/.env,target=/var/www/bookstack/.env \
-v <HOST>:/var/www/bookstack/public/uploads \
-v <HOST>:/var/www/bookstack/storage/uploads
```

In case of a windows host machine the .env file has to be already created in the
host directory otherwise a folder named .env will be created.

After these steps you can visit [http://localhost:8080](http://localhost:8080).
You can login with username `[email protected]` and password `password`.

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