Restyaboard is an open source, self-hosted Kanban board software that helps in project management, team collaboration and task tracking. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Restyaboard on Alpine Linux.
Before starting the installation process, you need to make sure following requirements:
Before installing any new software package, we should update the package repository and upgrade the system to avoid any conflict or dependency issues. Run the following command to update and upgrade the system:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
After updating the system, we need to install the necessary dependencies required to install and run Restyaboard. Run the following command to install them:
sudo apk add nginx php7 php7-fpm php7-dom php7-zip php7-zlib php7-gd php7-mbstring php7-session php7-openssl php7-json php7-iconv php7-posix php7-curl php7-bcmath php7-ctype php7-simplexml php7-xmlwriter php7-pdo_mysql mariadb mariadb-client
After installing the required dependencies, we need to download the latest version of Restyaboard from the official Github repository. Run the following command to download the Restyaboard:
wget https://github.com/RestyaPlatform/board/archive/v0.5.0.tar.gz
Once downloaded, extract the archive by running following command:
tar -zxvf v0.5.0.tar.gz
We need to create a database and user for Restyaboard to store and retrieve data. Run the following command to login into MariaDB:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Then create a new database, user and grant all privileges to the database user by running the following SQL commands one by one:
CREATE DATABASE restyaboard;
CREATE USER 'restyaboarduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON restyaboard.* TO 'restyaboarduser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
QUIT;
Note: Replace database name, username and password with your own choices.
Now, we need to create an Nginx virtual host configuration file for Restyaboard. Run the following command to open the default Nginx configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
And replace the entire text with the following virtual host configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name restyaboard.example.com; # Substitute your own domain name here
index index.php index.html;
error_log /var/log/nginx/restyaboard_error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/restyaboard_access.log;
root /var/www/board-0.5.0;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# PHP configuration
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock; # Substitute with your version of PHP
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Save the file and exit from the editor by pressing CTRL+X, then Y, then Enter.
We need to make some changes in Restyaboard's configuration file to connect it with the database we created in Step 4. Run the following command to open the config.php file:
sudo nano /var/www/board-0.5.0/config.php
And update the database details with our created database, user and password as shown below:
# MySQL Credential
$config['db_host'] = 'localhost';
$config['db_name'] = 'restyaboard'; # The name of our created database
$config['db_user'] = 'restyaboarduser'; # The name of our created user
$config['db_password'] = 'password'; # The password of our created user
Save the file and exit from the editor by pressing CTRL+X, then Y, then Enter.
We need to start Nginx and PHP-fpm services to serve our Restyaboard. Run the following commands to start these services:
sudo systemctl start nginx
sudo systemctl start php7-fpm
To ensure that these services start automatically on boot, run the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable nginx
sudo systemctl enable php7-fpm
Open your web browser and enter your server IP address or domain name configured in the Nginx virtual host configuration in Step 5. You should see the Restyaboard welcome page.
In this tutorial, we learnt how to install Restyaboard on Alpine Linux Latest. We hope this tutorial helps you in successfully installing and using Restyaboard for your project management and team collaboration work.
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