How to install the Wekan kanban server

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Wekan is simply a precise easy-to-deploy and usage kanban solution. Jack Wallen shows you however to rapidly deploy this level with the assistance of Ubuntu Server and snap.

If you (or your teammates) aren't utilizing a kanban committee to support yourself and your projects connected task, you're missing out. Kanban boards marque managing projects incredibly easier. And the much analyzable a task, the better.

But which kanban solution should you use? There are truthful galore of them. You tin prime from a hosted unreality service, you tin instal 1 connected your desktop, oregon you could deploy 1 to your information halfway for an in-house squad solution.

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It's that past enactment I privation to absorption connected contiguous ... with the assistance of Wekan. Wekan is an open-source kanban solution that has each of the features you request and nary of the bloat you don't want. Best of all, it tin easy beryllium deployed to your information halfway successful minutes.

The Wekan diagnostic database includes:

Labels for casual paper grouping and filtering
Add members to cards
Create aggregate boards
Easy collaboration
Clipboard functions
Drag and drop
Star and archive boards

Let maine amusement you however to deploy this useful kanban tool.

What you'll request

I'm going to show the deployment of Wekan connected Ubuntu Server 21.04, with the assistance of snap. If you're not utilizing Ubuntu Server 21.04, you tin inactive deploy Wekan connected a Linux organisation that supports snap.

How to deploy Wekan with drawback

The steps for deploying Wekan with drawback are beauteous simple. However, earlier you do, you request to instal the NGINX web server. Log into Ubuntu and contented the command:

sudo apt-get instal nginx -y

Once the installation completes, commencement and alteration NGINX with:

sudo systemctl commencement nginx sudo systemctl alteration nginx

Now that the webserver is up and running, we tin instal Wekan with:

sudo drawback instal wekan

When this installation completes, we request to acceptable the basal URL for the service. Let's say, for example, your Wekan server is astatine IP code 192.168.1.79. To acceptable that, contented the command:

sudo drawback acceptable wekan siteurl="http://192.168.1.79"

Next, we acceptable the Wekan default larboard with:

sudo drawback acceptable wekan port='3001'

Now we restart some the database and the Wekan work with:

sudo systemctl restart snap.wekan.mongodb sudo systemctl restart snap.wekan.wekan

How to entree Wekan

Open a web browser and constituent it to http://SERVER:3001 (where SERVER is the IP code of your hosting server). Click the Register nexus to make a caller relationship (Figure A).

Figure A

Once you've created your account, you'll beryllium logged successful and tin commencement creating caller boards (Figure B) to support your projects connected task.

Figure B

Congratulations, your in-house task absorption has been taken to the adjacent level.

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