Kanboard is a free and open-source project management tool that helps users manage tasks and projects efficiently. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps to install Kanboard on Arch Linux.
Before installing Kanboard, it's essential to update your Arch Linux system's package repository and all the installed packages to their latest versions. To do that, run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Kanboard requires a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack to run. To install the LAMP stack, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache mariadb php php-apache mariadb-clients
Once the installation process is complete, start and enable Apache and MariaDB services:
systemctl start httpd.service
systemctl start mariadb.service
systemctl enable httpd.service
systemctl enable mariadb.service
Before proceeding with the Kanboard installation, you need to create a database and user for the application. To do that, follow the next commands:
mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted. Once you're in the MySQL prompt, create the Kanboard database:
CREATE DATABASE kanboard;
Next, create a user for the Kanboard database and grant all privileges to the user:
CREATE USER 'kanboarduser' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboarduser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Note: Replace the kanboarduser and password with your desired MySQL user and password.
Kanboard requires some PHP extensions that are not installed by default on Arch Linux. We'll install those extensions by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S php-intl php-gd php-pgsql
Next, we need to configure php.ini file to enable those installed extensions. Open the php.ini file using any text editor:
sudo nano /etc/php/php.ini
Locate the following extensions in the php.ini file:
extension=mysqli
extension=pdo_mysql
Replace those with :
extension=pdo_pgsql
extension=pgsql
extension=intl
extension=gd
Save and close the php.ini file.
After making changes to the PHP configuration, restart Apache web server:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
At this point, we are ready to download and install Kanboard. Change to the Apache web server document root directory:
cd /srv/http/
sudo mkdir kanboard
cd kanboard
Download the latest version of Kanboard from the official website:
sudo wget https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/archive/master.zip
Extract the zip file:
sudo unzip master.zip
Move the extracted files to the Apache web server document root directory:
sudo mv kanboard-master/* /srv/http/kanboard/
Set the appropriate ownership and permissions to the Kanboard directory:
sudo chown -R http:http /srv/http/kanboard/
sudo chmod -R 755 /srv/http/kanboard/
Next, we need to configure Kanboard. Create a new configuration file and copy the configuration details from the sample configuration file:
sudo cp /srv/http/kanboard/config.default.php /srv/http/kanboard/config.php
sudo nano /srv/http/kanboard/config.php
Replace the following lines in the configuration file:
define('DEBUG_MODE', false);
define('DEBUG_FILE', '/tmp/kanboard.debug.log');
define('API_AUTHENTICATION_HEADER', 'X-API-Auth');
define('API_AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN', 'my-api-token');
With:
define('DEBUG_MODE', true);
define('DEBUG_FILE', '/tmp/kanboard.debug.log');
define('API_AUTHENTICATION_HEADER', 'X-API-Auth');
define('API_AUTHENTICATION_TOKEN', '');
define('LOG_DIR', '/tmp/');
Finally, we need to configure the Kanboard database connection. Search and modify the following lines in the configuration file:
define('DB_DRIVER', 'sqlite');
define('DB_FILENAME', __DIR__.'/../data/db.sqlite');
define('DB_USERNAME', '');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
define('DB_HOSTNAME', '');
define('DB_NAME', 'kanboard');
With:
define('DB_DRIVER', 'pgsql');
define('DB_CONNECTION', 'pgsql:dbname=kanboard;host=localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'kanboarduser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
Save and close the configuration file.
After completing the Kanboard installation and configuration, we can access Kanboard through a web browser by typing the following URL in the address bar:
http://domain_name_or_IP_address/kanboard/
Note: Replace the domain_name_or_IP_address with the IP address or domain name of your Arch Linux system.
Conclusion
We have successfully installed Kanboard on Arch Linux. You can now use the Kanboard interface to manage your tasks and projects.
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