In a few words, Kanboard is a free and open-source Kanban project management software.

This is a web-based application with which you can plan together with a team, the project to develop. Some of the things you can do with this application are the following:

• Visualize your work.
• Limit your work in progress to focus on your goal.
• Drag and drop tasks to manage your project.
• Self-hosted.
• Super simple installation.

The application is quite flexible and allows the use of plugins. With these, you will be able to extend Kanboard’s wide functionality.

So, let us begin.

Install Kanboard on Ubuntu 20.04

1.- Install LAMP on Ubuntu 20.04

Kanboard, being a web application, requires a server to process the application along with a language and a database. Fortunately, Kanboard supports several database managers such as MariaDB, SQLite or PostgreSQL, and several servers. In this post, we will use Apache and MariaDB, so we have to install the LAMP stack.

How to install LAMP on Ubuntu 20.04?

Once it is installed, install other modules and additional packages needed to enhance the installation:

php libapache2-mod-php php-curl php-json php-gd php-mysql php-intl php-xmlrpc php-zip php-sqlite3 php-dompdf php-xml php-mbstring curl git unzip

Then we can continue with the installation.

2.- Create a new Database for Kanboard

The next step is to create a new database and user for Kanboard to use. This step is recommended to avoid that the application works with the root user.

So, open the MariaDB shell

sudo mysql -u root -p

And now proceed to create the database, the user, and assign the corresponding permissions.

CREATE DATABASE kanboard;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboarduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'kanboardpss';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit; 

Feel free to change the values to whatever you prefer, especially the password, which needs to be quite strong.

3.- Download Kanboard

Now we can download Kanboard to our server. In this post, we will use the latest stable version and not the development one.

So, place it in the temporary folder.

cd /tmp

And with the help of the wget command, download Kanboard.

wget -c https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/archive/v1.2.18.zip

After that, unzip the archive into the Apache directory with the unzip command.

sudo unzip v1.2.18.zip -d /var/www/html/

The name of the generated folder is a bit confusing, so we’ll rename it to something simpler and easier to remember

sudo mv /var/www/html/kanboard-1.2.18/ /var/www/html/kanboard

Next, make Apache the owner of the folder where Kanboard is located.

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/kanboard/

And assign the correct permissions to the folder:

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/kanboard/

Configuring Kanboard

Before using Kanboard, you need to set the database values in the configuration file.

So, use nano for this.

sudo nano /var/www/html/kanboard/config.default.php

And inside the file, modify the following values:

define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysql');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'kanboarduser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'kanboardpss');
define('DB_NAME', 'kanboard');

Remember that you have to modify the values you defined in the database. Then save the changes and close the editor.

Now, create a new VirtualHost for Kanboard:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/kanboard.conf

With the following values:

<VirtualHost: *:80>
      ServerAdmin admin@example.com
      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/kanboard/kanboard-1.2.18/
      ServerName kanboard.osradar.test
 
    <Directory /var/www/kanboard/>
            Options FollowSymlinks
            AllowOverride All
            Require all granted
     </Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Don’t forget, replace the ServerName value with your domain.

Save the changes and close the editor.

Now, if Kanboard will be available on the web (most likely it will) then you have to create a security certificate and add it, this will enable secure connections over HTTPS.

So, install Certbot and the Apache plugin.

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-apache

Then, generate and add the certificate by running:

sudo certbot --apache --agree-tos --redirect --hsts --staple-ocsp --email you@example.org -d [domain]

Replace the email and domain values with your own.

Then, enable the new VirtualHost, the rewrite module and apply the changes:

sudo a2ensite kanboard.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now access from a web browser to your domain.

Testing Kanboard on Ubuntu 20.04

Now we can start the Kanboard test. To do this, open a web browser from your client computer and go to https://your-domain and you will see the following screen:

Now use the default credentials which are admin/admin and then, you will see the Kanboard main screen.

You are now ready to go. Of course, it is recommended to change your password.

So, enjoy it.

Conclusion

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In a few words, Kanboard is a free and open-source Kanban project management software.

This is a web-based application with which you can plan together with a team, the project to develop. Some of the things you can do with this application are the following:

• Visualize your work.
• Limit your work in progress to focus on your goal.
• Drag and drop tasks to manage your project.
• Self-hosted.
• Super simple installation.

The application is quite flexible and allows the use of plugins. With these, you will be able to extend Kanboard’s wide functionality.

So, let us begin.

Install Kanboard on Ubuntu 18.04

Kanboard is a web-based application. Therefore we must deploy a web server. In addition to this, in the installation, we will be asked to have a database management system like MariaDB. So the installation does not become complicated.

On the other hand, you have to have some knowledge about the Linux terminal. Although the guide will be step by step, it is convenient to have solid knowledge.

1) Install LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04

First of all, you have to have a web server with Apache running on our Ubuntu 18.04. For that, we made a pretty explicit post about it.

Please, read How to install LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04?

Be sure to install some required PHP modules: php-curl php-json php-gd php-mysql php-intl and php-xmlrpc

After everything is in order with Apache, PHP and MariaDB you can move on.

2) Create a new MariaDB user for Kanboard

Once MariaDB is correctly installed, you need to create a new database for the application. However, it is also recommended to create a new different user for it.

:~$ sudo mysql -u root -p
> CREATE DATABASE kanboard;
> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboarduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'kanboardpss';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> Exit;

With this, the application will be a little safer.

3) Install Composer and some required packages

To install Kanboard on Ubuntu 18.04, we need to install Composer. For this, we have a well-explained tutorial.

Read, How to install Composer on Linux?

Then, you need to install these necessary packages:

:~$ sudo apt install curl git

However, if you want to get the latest version of Git, I invite you to read our tutorial about it.

How to install GIT on Ubuntu 18.04?

So, we can continue.

4) Download and install Kanboard on Ubuntu 18.04

Now we can start downloading and installing Kanboard.

For it, we will use curl.

:~$ cd /tmp
:~$ git clone https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard.git

Once the download is complete, move it to the Apache directory. Then, proceed to install it, with these commands:

:~$ sudo mv kanboard /var/www/kanboard
:~$ cd /var/www/kanboard
:~$ sudo mv config.default.php config.php
:~$ sudo composer install

After that, you have to modify the Kanboard configuration file to incorporate the MariaDB credentials you just created.

:~$ sudo nano /var/www/kanboard/config.php

Edit the following lines:

define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysql');
define('DB_USERNAME', 'kanboarduser');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'kanboardpss');
define('DB_NAME', 'kanboard');

Save the changes and close the file.

Now, change the permission to the Kanboard folder.

:~$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/kanboard/
:~$ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/kanboard/

In order for Kanboard to run correctly in the web browser, a new dedicated Virtualhost has to be created.

:~$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/kanboard.conf

And add the following:

<VirtualHost *:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@example.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/kanboard
     ServerName kanboard.osradar.lan

     <Directory /var/www/kanboard/>
          Options FollowSymlinks
          AllowOverride All
          Require all granted
     </Directory>

     ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
     CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Again, save the changes and close the file.

Now, enable the new Virtualhost:

:~$ sudo a2ensite kanboard.conf
:~$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
:~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now, you can go to your server. You will see this screen:

So, log in using the username admin and the password admin.

So, enjoy it.

Conclusion

The organization is the success of a project. And there is an open-source application that helps us to work in an organized team. This is the case of Kanboard. In this post, you have noticed how its installation in a Ubuntu 18.04 server.

If you use CentOS 7, you can read our tutorial on how to install Kanboard on CentOS 7?.

Soon we will make some for CentOS 8, RHEL 8 and Oracle Linux 8.

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