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

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

    extension=gd

  21. Save the changes to php.ini and close the text editor
  22. Navigate back to XAMPP/ and run xampp-control.exe
  23. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
  24. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
  25. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell windows here...
  26. 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"
  27. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/kanboard
  28. Login with the username admin and password admin
  29. Click the options carrot in the top right corner > My profile
  30. Click Edit profile from the left navigation
  31. Change the username and set a name and email as needed > Click Save
  32. Click Change password from the left navigation
  33. Enter admin as the Current password and enter and confirm a new secure password > Click Save
  34. Click the options carrot in the top right corner > Logout
  35. Log back in with the updated credentials
  36. Welcome to Kanboard