Installing Kanboard with nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 ·

Installing nginx if it’s not installed

First, update the repo to get latest versions
```
sudo apt update
```

Install nginx

sudo apt install nginx (you can ignore this step if you ran it above for the above install)

Enable the service to start on boot
```
sudo systemctl enable nginx
```

Install PHP

Update the repo to get latest versions
```
sudo apt update
```

Install php and php extensions

sudo apt install php7.2 php7.2-mysql php7.2-gd php7.2-mbstring php7.2-common php7.2-opcache php7.2-cli php7.2-xml

Installing MariaDB

First, update the repo to get latest versions (you can ignore this step if you ran it above for the above installs)
```
sudo apt update
```

Install Maridadb-server and mariadb-client

sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Secure the installation
```
sudo mysql_secure_installation
```
First will prompt you for current password, this will be blank so just press enter
```
Enter current password for root (enter for none): 
```
Next, it will ask you to set a root password. Press Y and enter a password, and then confirm.
```
Set root password? [Y/n] Y
```
The rest, accept the defaults, and complete the configuration.
Enable the service to start on boot.
```
sudo systemctl enable mariadb-server
```

Setting up database for Kanboard

Create database

CREATE DATABASE kanboard CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

Create a user (Please change the password at the end to a secure password)
```
create user 'kanboarduser'@'localhost' identified by 'your-password';
```

Grant privileges to the above account

grant all privileges ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboarduser'@'localhost';

Flush privileges and exit
```
flush privileges;
exit;       
```

Installing Kanboard

Download the latest release

git clone https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard.git

Move to the nginx directory

sudo mv kanboard /usr/share/nginx/kanboard

Amend permissions of the folder

sudo chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/nginx/kanboard/data -R

Create the nginx config file

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

Copy and paste the below into the file for the config. Change the server_name to your server name/IP. If you want to change the port too, change the listen 80 line.

server {
 listen       80;       
 server_name  kan.example.com;
 index        index.php;
 root         /usr/share/nginx/kanboard;
 client_max_body_size 32M;

 location / {
     try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
 }

 location ~ \.php$ {
     try_files $uri =404;
     fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
     fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
     fastcgi_index index.php;
     include fastcgi_params;
 }

 location ~* ^.+\.(log|sqlite)$ {
     return 404;
 }

 location ~ /\.ht {
     return 404;
 }

 location ~* ^.+\.(ico|jpg|gif|png|css|js|svg|eot|ttf|woff|woff2|otf)$ {
     log_not_found off;
     expires 7d;
     etag on;
 }

 gzip on;
 gzip_comp_level 3;
 gzip_disable "msie6";
 gzip_vary on;
 gzip_types
     text/javascript
     application/javascript
     application/json
     text/xml
     application/xml
     application/rss+xml
     text/css
     text/plain;

}

Tell kanboard where the database is. Copy the default config first.

sudo cp /usr/share/nginx/kanboard/config.default.php /usr/share/nginx/kanboard/config.php

Edit the config file.

sudo nano /usr/share/nginx/kanboard/config.php

Edit the following lines. Make sure you change the PASSWORD to the password you set above.

// Database driver: sqlite, mysql or postgres (sqlite by default)
define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysql');

// Mysql/Postgres username
define('DB_USERNAME', 'kanboarduser');

// Mysql/Postgres password
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'PASSWORD'); 

// Mysql/Postgres hostname
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'localhost');

// Mysql/Postgres database name
define('DB_NAME', 'kanboard');

Test the nginx config.
```
sudo nginx -t
```
If the above comes back successfully, restart nginx service.

sudo systemctl reload nginx
Browse to the web site you set in the nginx config file above and it should appear, http://kan.example.com:80