Restyaboard is an open-source Kanban board application that helps teams to visualize their workflows and collaborate efficiently. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Restyaboard on your Ubuntu server.
Before you start with the installation, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
Before we proceed with the installation of Restyaboard, we need to install some required packages on our Ubuntu server.
First, update the system packages by running the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Next, install the required packages for building and running the Restyaboard application:
sudo apt install -y git curl zip unzip nano gettext-base build-essential
Restyaboard is built using the PHP programming language, so we need to install PHP and some required PHP extensions on our Ubuntu server.
To install PHP on your Ubuntu server, run the following command:
sudo apt install -y php php-mysqli php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-curl
After installing PHP, you need to enable some PHP extensions required by the Restyaboard application. To enable the required PHP extensions, run the following commands:
sudo phpenmod mysqli mbstring xml zip curl
Restyaboard requires a running instance of MariaDB or MySQL database server to store its data. If you don't have MariaDB or MySQL installed on your system, you can install it by running the following command:
sudo apt install -y mariadb-server
After installing MariaDB, you need to create a new database and user for Restyaboard. To do that, use the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter your MariaDB root password when prompted. Once you are logged in to the MariaDB command-line interface, execute the following commands to create a new database and user for Restyaboard:
CREATE DATABASE restyaboard;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON restyaboard.* TO 'restyaboard_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Make sure to replace password with a secure password of your choice.
Next, we will clone the Restyaboard source code from the Git repository by executing the following command:
sudo git clone https://github.com/RestyaPlatform/board.git /var/www/restyaboard
Create a new Apache or Nginx virtual host configuration file for Restyaboard with the following command:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/restyaboard.conf
Add the following Apache virtual host configuration to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com #change as required
DocumentRoot /var/www/restyaboard
<Directory /var/www/restyaboard/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/restyaboard_error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/restyaboard_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Save and close the file.
Enable the Restyaboard virtual host configuration file and restart Apache:
sudo a2ensite restyaboard.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2
To configure Restyaboard, you need to copy the config.example.php file and rename it to config.php.
sudo cp /var/www/restyaboard/application/config/config.example.php /var/www/restyaboard/application/config/config.php
Next, edit the config.php file and update the database details:
sudo nano /var/www/restyaboard/application/config/config.php
Update the following lines in the file with your database credentials:
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['default']['username'] = 'restyaboard_user';
$db['default']['password'] = 'password';
$db['default']['database'] = 'restyaboard';
Save and close the file.
Before we can use Restyaboard, we need to install its dependencies. To install the dependencies, navigate to the /var/www/restyaboard directory and run the following command:
php composer.phar install
Restyaboard is now installed and accessible through your web browser. To access the application, navigate to http://example.com (replace example.com with your server's domain name or IP address).
You will be prompted to create an admin account and configure some basic settings for your Restyaboard instance.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Restyaboard on Ubuntu Server. We covered the steps required to install PHP and its extensions, configure a database, install Restyaboard, and configure it to work with Apache or Nginx. With Restyaboard installed, you can now start using it to visualize your workflows and collaborate with your team.
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