Install Easy!Appointments on Linux [Opensource Appointment Scheduler System]
12#EasyAppointments #Linux #Scheduling
Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0743.html
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What is Easy!Appointments?
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Easy!Appointments is a highly customizable web application that allows customers to book appointments with you via a sophisticated web interface. Moreover, it provides the ability to sync your data with Google Calendar so you can use them with other services. It is an open source project that you can download and install even for commercial use. Easy!Appointments will run smoothly with your existing website as it can be installed in a single folder of the server and of course share an existing database. - https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments#about
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Installation
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01. Log into the Linux device
02. Run the following commands in a terminal window:
# update software repositories
sudo apt update
# install available software updates
sudo apt upgrade -y
# install prerequisites
sudo apt install curl wget zip -y
# install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y
# install PHP components
sudo apt install php7.4 php7.4-curl php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-mysqli php7.4-mysql -y
# configure the MySQL database
sudo su
mysql_secure_installation
03. Press Enter to login as root
04. Type N and press Enter to not switch to unix socket authentication
05. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
06. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
07. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
08. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
09. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
10. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
mysql -u root -p
11. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
12. Run the following commands to create the Easy!Appointments database and database user
CREATE DATABASE easy_appointments;
GRANT ALL ON easy_appointments.* to 'easy_appointments_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'EasyAppo1ntm3nts!!';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
exit
13. Continue with the following commands:
# fetch the latest download URL
regex='"browser_download_url": "(https:\/\/github.com\/alextselegidis\/easyappointments\/releases\/download\/[^/]*\/easyappointments-[^/]*\.zip)"' && response=$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/alextselegidis/easyappointments/releases/latest) && [[ $response =~ $regex ]] && downloadURL="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
# download the latest release
wget -O easyappointments.zip $downloadURL
# create target directory
sudo mkdir /var/www/html/easyappointments
# extract the downloaded zip to /var/www/html/easyappointments
sudo unzip ./easyappointments.zip -d /var/www/html/easyappointments
# set the owner of the easyappointments directory
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/easyappointments
# copy sample config file
sudo cp /var/www/html/easyappointments/config-sample.php /var/www/html/easyappointments/config.php
# edit config.php
sudo nano /var/www/html/easyappointments/config.php
14. Scroll down to the const BASE_URL variable and set the value to the IP address or DNS name of the host
const BASE_URL = 'http://localhost/easyappointments';
15. Press CTRL+W and search for db_name
16. Update or add the following configuration
const DB_HOST = 'localhost';
const DB_NAME = 'easy_appointments';
const DB_USERNAME = 'easy_appointments_rw';
const DB_PASSWORD = 'EasyAppo1ntm3nts!!';
17. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes
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Easy!Appointments Web Installer
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01. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/easyappointments
02. The Easy!Appointments Installation web installer should be load
03. Complete the Administrator and Company form fields ≫ Click Install Easy!Appointments
04. Welcome to Easy!Appointments
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