By default, Kanboard use Sqlite to store its data but it’s also possible to use Postgresql.

Requirements

• Postgresql >= 9.3
• The PHP extension pdo_pgsql installed (Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install php5-pgsql)

Configuration

Create an empty database with the command pgsql:

CREATE DATABASE kanboard;

Create a config file

The file config.php should contain those values:

<?php

// We choose to use Postgresql instead of Sqlite
define('DB_DRIVER', 'postgres');

// Postgresql parameters
define('DB_USERNAME', 'REPLACE_ME');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'REPLACE_ME');
define('DB_HOSTNAME', 'REPLACE_ME');
define('DB_NAME', 'kanboard');

Note: You can also rename the template file config.default.php to config.php.

Importing SQL dump (alternative method)

For the first time, Kanboard will run one by one each database migration and this process can take some time according to your configuration.

To avoid any issues or potential timeouts, you can initialize the database directly by importing the SQL schema:

psql -U postgres my_database < app/Schema/Sql/postgres.sql

The file app/Schema/Sql/postgres.sql is a SQL dump that represents the last version of the database.