A single SilverBullet server can host any number of spaces — each with its own URL, access rules, and configuration — managed through a web-based dashboard.

Setup wizard

When a server boots with an empty data folder it will run in setup mode. Setup mode has two steps:

1. Account creation: creates the first administrator account.
2. Space creation: creates your first space.

Accounts

Spaces

Spaces have a name and point to a folder where its content is kept. By default this will be inside the SilverBullet data folder, but you can pick any folder you like.

Bindings

Each space has a public address composed from a hostname and a path (which can be /).

The setup wizard, Create space, and Space settings → General use the same address editor. Choose the primary host, a previously configured custom hostname or hostname:port, or New hostname, then choose a path.

Access

Access to a space can be configured to one of three levels:

• none: Not visible, no access.
• read: May read content. May not modify anything, and may not reach any capability endpoint (shell, proxy, runtime API).
• write: Full access to the space’s content and capabilities.

write carries real trust — see [[Security#What write really means]].

The effective level for a request is the maximum of three independent sources:

• access — what a visitor with no session gets: none (default), read, write.
• username.role — what one account gets: absent (no access), read, write.
• admin: always write on every space.

Dashboard access

When no space is bound to the server root (/), opening / redirects to /.dashboard instead of opening a space. Any account can log in there. Ordinary accounts see spaces with anonymous access and spaces where they are members, administrators see every space, plus the admin screens.