Disable Specific Extensions

Configuration/Setup
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Describe the issue / Steps to reproduce:
I want to disable CollabPads and other Extensions i dont use and need. Adding extensions is quite easy but removing them seems quite hard. My workaround is to remove it from
/app/bluespice/w/settings.d/040-BlueSpiceProDistribution.php (by mounting a copy of it)
but i dont like the solution when updates come along. Is there a better way to do that?

What was the error message/error log?
Collabpads crashes too often for me.

$docker container logs bluespice-collabpads-database:
{“t”:{“$date”:“2026-05-26T16:27:02.449+00:00”},“s”:“I”, “c”:“EXECUTOR”, “id”:22989, “ctx”:“conn137565”,“msg”:“Error sending response to client. Ending connection from remote”,“attr”:{“error”:{“code”:9001,“codeName”:“SocketException”,“errmsg”:“futurize :: caused by :: Broken pipe”},“remote”:“127.0.0.1:45194”,“connectionId”:137565}}
{“t”:{“$date”:“2026-05-26T16:27:13.586+00:00”},“s”:“I”, “c”:“EXECUTOR”, “id”:22989, “ctx”:“conn137564”,“msg”:“Error sending response to client. Ending connection from remote”,“attr”:{“error”:{“code”:9001,“codeName”:“SocketException”,“errmsg”:“futurize :: caused by :: Broken pipe”},“remote”:“127.0.0.1:59966”,“connectionId”:137564}}
{“t”:{“$date”:“2026-05-26T16:26:57.957+00:00”},“s”:“I”, “c”:“NETWORK”, “id”:22944, “ctx”:“conn137563”,“msg”:“Connection ended”,“attr”:{“remote”:“127.0.0.1:49982”,“isLoadBalanced”:false,“uuid”:{“uuid”:{“$uuid”:“675104dd-77c0-4438-9d8c-b27752ba70e2”}},“connectionId”:137563,“connectionCount”:4}}
{“t”:{“$date”:“2026-05-26T16:27:21.230+00:00”},“s”:“I”, “c”:“WTCHKPT”, “id”:22430, “ctx”:“Checkpointer”,“msg”:“WiredTiger message”,“attr”:{“message”:{“ts_sec”:1779812759,“ts_usec”:475344,“thread”:“1:0x7f605e0fc6c0”,“session_name”:“WT_SESSION.checkpoint”,“category”:“WT_VERB_CHECKPOINT_PROGRESS”,“log_id”:1000000,“category_id”:7,“verbose_level”:“DEBUG_1”,“verbose_level_id”:1,“msg”:“Checkpoint ran for 1319 seconds and wrote: 9 pages (5 MB)”}}}
{“t”:{“$date”:“2026-05-26T16:28:13.806+00:00”},“s”:“W”, “c”:“WT”, “id”:22430, “ctx”:“thread137593”,“msg”:“WiredTiger message”,“attr”:{“message”:{“ts_sec”:1779812837,“ts_usec”:397621,“thread”:“1:0x7f60649096c0”,“session_name”:“sweep-server”,“category”:“WT_VERB_DEFAULT”,“log_id”:1000000,“category_id”:12,“verbose_level”:“WARNING”,“verbose_level_id”:-2,“msg”:“Session 24 (@: 0x0x52097ca08880 name: connection-open-session) did not run a sweep for 60 minutes.”}}}

System info:

  • OS: Debian 6.1
  • Server: (Docker)
  • PHP: 8.4.17
  • Database: MariaDB 11.4.8
  • BlueSpice version: BlueSpice pro 5.2.2
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Hi SaiCode!

I’m sorry for the late reply.

Unfortunately, there is no other way to disable specific extensions currently, except the one you described.

But we’re looking into that, I created a ticket for adding some mechanism to disable extensions in convenient way. Ticket number is 48334.

Greetings,

Alexey.

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Hi SaiCode,

you wrote that “adding extensions is quite easy.” I recently migrated a BlueSpice Free instance from a tarball installation to Docker and have already spent almost half a day trying to find out how additional MediaWiki extensions can be installed in a Docker-based BlueSpice environment.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to find any useful information in either the official documentation or the community forums. Maybe I am simply searching in the wrong place, but if there is any documentation, guide, or example available, I would be very grateful for a link.

Thanks in advance!