TaskBoard is a free and open-source web application for managing tasks and to-do lists. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install TaskBoard on EndeavourOS, a rolling release Linux distribution.
Before you can install TaskBoard, make sure your EndeavourOS system meets the following requirements:
The first step to installing TaskBoard is to download the software from the official website. You can do this by opening a terminal window and typing the following command:
sudo wget https://github.com/kiswa/TaskBoard/releases/download/v1.1.0/TaskBoard-1.1.0.zip
This will download the latest version of TaskBoard from the official Github repository.
Once the download is complete, you will need to extract the TaskBoard archive to a directory on your web server. You can do this by typing the following command:
sudo unzip TaskBoard-1.1.0.zip -d /var/www/html/
This command will extract the TaskBoard files to the /var/www/html/ directory, which is the default web root directory in Apache.
TaskBoard requires a database to store tasks, so you will need to create a new database for TaskBoard to use. You can do this by logging into the MySQL/MariaDB server as root and typing the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE taskboard;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON taskboard.* TO 'taskboarduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Replace taskboarduser and password with a username and password of your choice.
Now that you have extracted the TaskBoard files and created a new database, you need to configure TaskBoard to use the database. To do this, you will need to copy the config.php.example file to a new file called config.php, and edit the new file with your database details. You can do this by typing the following commands:
sudo cp /var/www/html/TaskBoard-1.1.0/config.php.example /var/www/html/TaskBoard-1.1.0/config.php
sudo nano /var/www/html/TaskBoard-1.1.0/config.php
In the config.php file, edit the following lines with your database details:
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('DB_PORT', '3306');
define('DB_NAME', 'taskboard');
define('DB_USER', 'taskboarduser');
define('DB_PASS', 'password');
Save and close the file when you are done.
Before you can use TaskBoard, you need to set the correct file permissions for the TaskBoard files. You can do this by typing the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/TaskBoard-1.1.0/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/TaskBoard-1.1.0/
This will set the correct ownership and permissions for the TaskBoard files.
Now that you have installed and configured TaskBoard, you can access it by opening a web browser and navigating to the following URL:
http://localhost/TaskBoard-1.1.0/
You should see the TaskBoard login screen. Enter your username and password to log in and start using TaskBoard.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed TaskBoard on your EndeavourOS system.
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