Running Kanboard in an Apache Server

This post is just a copy of this https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0787.html. As we might go offline, again, I saving it in this post.

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Install Kanboard Visual Todo and Tasks Management on Windows What is Kanboard?

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. -https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard

Installation

Download XAMPP Download
Download Kanboard Download
Download Microsoft Visual C++ Download
Install Microsoft Visual C++
Right click the downloaded XAMPP file > Extract All...
Right click the downloaded Kanboard .zip file > Extract All...
Rename the extracted folder kanboard
Cut the kanboard folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
Navigate into the kanboard folder
[**VERY IMPORTANT**] Make a copy of the config.default.php and rename it config.php
Edit config.php in a text editor
Search for DB_DRIVER
Set the DB_DRIVER value to mysql
Set the DB_USERNAME value to kanboard_rw
Set the DB_PASSWORD value to K@nb0r4!
Save the changes to config.php and close the text editor
Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
Navigate into XAMPP/PHP and edit php.ini in a text editor
Find the list of extensions and make sure the following are enabled by removing the ; at the start of the line.

extension=gd
Save the changes to php.ini and close the text editor
Navigate back to XAMPP/ and run xampp-control.exe
Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell windows here...
Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the database
.\mysql -u root
CREATE DATABASE kanboard DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
CREATE USER 'kanboard_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'K@nb0r4!';
GRANT ALL ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboard_rw'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
.\mysql -u kanboard_rw -pK@nb0r4! kanboard -e "source C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\kanboard\app\Schema\Sql\mysql.sql"
Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/kanboard
Login with the username admin and password admin
Click the options carrot in the top right corner > My profile
Click Edit profile from the left navigation
Change the username and set a name and email as needed > Click Save
Click Change password from the left navigation
Enter admin as the Current password and enter and confirm a new secure password > Click Save
Click the options carrot in the top right corner > Logout
Log back in with the updated credentials
Welcome to Kanboard

• Also, in order to get rid of the annoying “Your Kanboard instance is not configured to install plugins from the user interface.”, set PLUGIN_INSTALLER to true.

• Some useful starting plugins are in the assets directory of my github.io repo. .Persian calendar and kanboard plugins are developed by Hamid Kord, (github).