# Install Kanboard Visual Todo and Tasks Management on Windows

## What is Kanboard?

> Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. -https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard

## Installation

1. Download XAMPP Download
2. Download Kanboard Download
3. Download Microsoft Visual C++ Download
4. Install Microsoft Visual C++
5. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file > Extract All...
6. Right click the downloaded Kanboard .zip file > Extract All...
7. Rename the extracted folder kanboard
8. Cut the kanboard folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
9. Navigate into the kanboard folder
10. Make a copy of the config.default.php and rename it config.php
11. Edit config.php in a text editor
12. Search for DB_DRIVER
13. Set the DB_DRIVER value to mysql
14. Set the DB_USERNAME value to kanboard_rw
15. Set the DB_PASSWORD value to K@nb0r4!
16. Save the changes to config.php and close the text editor
17. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
18. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
19. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
20. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
21. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
22. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell windows here...
23. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the database
    .\mysql -u root
    CREATE DATABASE kanboard DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
    CREATE USER 'kanboard_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'K@nb0r4!';
    GRANT ALL ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboard_rw'@'localhost';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    exit;
    .\mysql -u kanboard_rw -pK@nb0r4! kanboard -e "source C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\kanboard\app\Schema\Sql\mysql.sql"
24. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/kanboard
25. Login with the username admin and password admin
26. Click the options carrot in the top right corner > My profile
27. Click Edit profile from the left navigation
28. Change the username and set a name and email as needed > Click Save
29. Click Change password from the left navigation
30. Enter admin as the Current password and enter and confirm a new secure password > Click Save
31. Click the options carrot in the top right corner > Logout
32. Log back in with the updated credentials
33. Welcome to Kanboard