Installation on Microsoft Windows Server

Windows Server and Apache

This guide will help you to setup step by step Kanboard on a Windows Server with Apache and PHP.

Note: If you have a 64 bits platform choose “x64” otherwise choose “x86” for 32-bit systems.

Visual C++ Redistributable Installation

PHP and Apache are compiled with Visual Studio so you need to install this library if it’s not already done.

1. Download the library from the official Microsoft website
2. Run the installer vcredist_x64.exe or vcredist_x86.exe according to your platform

Apache Installation

1. Download Apache binary from Apache Lounge
2. Unzip the Apache24 folder to C:\Apache24

Define the server name:

Open the file C:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and add the directive:

ServerName localhost

Install the Apache service

Open a command prompt (cmd.exe) and go to the directory C:\Apache24\bin:

cd C:\Apache24\bin

# Install the windows service
httpd.exe -k install

Install ApacheMonitor

• Double click on C:\Apache24\bin\ApacheMonitor.exe, or put it in your startup folder.
• Right click on the icon and start Apache

Check the Apache installation

Go to http://localhost/ you should see a blank page with the text “It works!”.

PHP installation

1. Download the last stable version of PHP from the official PHP website, choose the Thread Safe version and use the exact same build type as Apache: x86 or x64
2. Unzip the files to C:\php
3. Navigate to the PHP folder and rename the file php.ini-production to php.ini

Edit the php.ini:

Uncomment extension directory:

extension_dir = "C:/php/ext"

Uncomment these PHP modules:

extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_openssl.dll
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll

Set the time zone:

date.timezone = America/Montreal

The list of supported time zones can be found in the PHP documentation.

Load the PHP module for Apache:

Add this configuration in the file C:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf:

LoadModule php5_module "c:/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

# configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/php"

# change this directive
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Restart Apache.

Test your PHP installation:

Create a file named phpinfo.php in the folder C:\Apache24\htdocs:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

Go to http://localhost/phpinfo.php and should see all information about your PHP installation.

Kanboard installation

• Download the zip file
• Decompress the archive in C:\Apache24\htdocs\kanboard
• Open your web browser to use Kanboard http://localhost/kanboard/
• The default credentials are admin/admin

Windows Server and IIS

This guide will help you to setup step by step Kanboard on a Windows Server with IIS and PHP.

PHP Installation

• Install IIS on your server (Add a new role and don’t forget to enable CGI/FastCGI)
• Install PHP by following the official documentation:
  • Microsoft IIS 5.1 and IIS 6.0
  • Microsoft IIS 7.0 and later
  • PHP for Windows is available here

PHP.ini

You need at least, these extensions in your php.ini:

extension=php_gd2.dll
extension=php_ldap.dll
extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_openssl.dll
extension=php_pdo_sqlite.dll

Do not forget to set the time zone:

date.timezone = America/Montreal

The list of supported time zones can be found in the PHP documentation.

IIS Modules

The Kanboard archive contains a web.config file to enable URL rewriting. This configuration require the Rewrite module for IIS.

If you don’t have the rewrite module, you will get an internal server error (500) from IIS. If you don’t want to have Kanboard with nice URLs, you can remove the file web.config.

Kanboard installation

• Download the zip file
• Decompress the archive in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\kanboard
• Make sure the directory data is writable by the IIS user
• Open your web browser to use Kanboard http://localhost/kanboard/
• The default credentials are admin/admin