# Kanboard (nginx, mariadb, php7.4)

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Rent a VPS with debian 10+ (or just run it yourself, but make sure it is correctly port forwarded so that public ip points to the machine like a vps).

Once you have ssh'd into your debian server as root, we can start:

## **Initial Setup**
    
    
    apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
    apt install nginx socat mariadb-server git php8.2-{fpm,mbstring,cli,opcache,zip,xml,gd,ldap,mysql,sqlite3} -y 
    mysql -u root -p
    
    
    
    
    CREATE DATABASE kanboard CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;;
    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboard'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'StrongPassword';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    \q
    
    

Next you'll need to get the [latest](https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/releases) version of kanboard, currently it is version 1.2.16
    
    
    export VER=1.2.16
    wget https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard/archive/v${VER}.tar.gz
    tar xvf v${VER}.tar.gz
    rm -f v${VER}.tar.gz
    mv kanboard-${VER}/ /var/www/kanboard
    
    

Next we configure config.php:
    
    
    wget https://blog.nowhere.moe/servers/kanboard/config.php -O /var/www/kanboard/config.php
    nano /var/www/kanboard/config.php
    
    

Edit the config file if you want, the important part being the following:

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Then hit CTRL+S to save and CTRL+X to exit nano.

## **Configuring NGINX**
    
    
    chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/kanboard
    wget https://blog.nowhere.moe/servers/kanboard/kanboard.conf -O /etc/nginx/sites-available/kanboard.conf
    rm /etc/nginx/sites-available/default 
    rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default 
    ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/kanboard.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/kanboard.conf
    
    

Now for this part we need a domain name, if you want the a free alternative just use [duckdns.org](https://www.duckdns.org/)

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Test if the domain name correctly points to your server's ip address:

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Once that's done use acme.sh to get your free letsencrypt certificate:
    
    
    wget -O -  https://get.acme.sh | sh
    source ~/.bashrc
    
    systemctl stop nginx 
    acme.sh --issue --standalone -d ech2.duckdns.org -k 4096
    systemctl start nginx 
    
    nginx -t
    
    

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    nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/kanboard.conf
    
    

next just change the domain name to yours:

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hit ctrl+S and ctrl+X when you're done, and then reload the nginx configuration:
    
    
    systemctl restart php7.4-fpm nginx mysql
    
    

BONUS: self registration plugin for public usage:
    
    
    	cd /var/www/kanboard/plugins
    	git clone https://github.com/kanboard/plugin-registration
    	mv plugin-registration Registration
    	chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/kanboard
    

## **Configuring Kanboard**

Once that's done just get to your website:

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The default credentials are **admin:admin** , you can change them here:

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Next just create a new project:

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Then add tasks to it:

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You can easily drag and drop tasks with your mouse around when you're finished with them

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