Easy!Appointments is an open source software that facilitates appointment scheduling for businesses and organizations. It can be installed on various operating systems including Alpine Linux. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Easy!Appointments on Alpine Linux.
Before we start, ensure that the following requirements are satisfied:
Step 1: Update Alpine Linux
The first step is to update Alpine Linux by running the following command in the terminal:
apk update && apk upgrade
Step 2: Install Required Packages
After updating, you need to install some packages required for Easy!Appointments to run successfully. Run the following command to install these packages:
apk add --no-cache php7 php7-json php7-mysqli php7-intl php7-mbstring php7-xml php7-gd php7-curl php7-session curl
Step 3: Download Easy!Appointments
Once the required packages are installed, you can download the latest version of Easy!Appointments from their official website:
curl -LO https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments/archive/refs/tags/v1.6.3.tar.gz
Step 4: Extract and Move Files to Web Directory
After downloading the tarball, extract it and move the files to your web server's document root directory. For Nginx, the document root is usually located at /usr/share/nginx/html.
tar -xzf v1.6.3.tar.gz
cd easyappointments-1.6.3
mv * /usr/share/nginx/html
Step 5: Set Permissions
Ensure that the web server has permission to write to the config, logs, and uploads directories by running the following commands:
chown -R nginx:nginx /usr/share/nginx/html/config /usr/share/nginx/html/logs /usr/share/nginx/html/uploads
chmod -R 755 /usr/share/nginx/html/config /usr/share/nginx/html/logs /usr/share/nginx/html/uploads
Step 6: Create Database and User
Next, you need to create a database and user for Easy!Appointments. Log in to your database management system and create a new database and user with privileges to access it.
Step 7: Configure Easy!Appointments
Navigate to the directory where you installed Easy!Appointments and open the config.php file using your preferred text editor:
vi /usr/share/nginx/html/config/config.php
Update the database details with the ones you created in step 6:
define('APP_DB_HOST', 'localhost');
define('APP_DB_USERNAME', 'your-db-user');
define('APP_DB_PASSWORD', 'your-db-user-password');
define('APP_DB_NAME', 'your-db-name');
Also, make sure the SESSION_SAVE_HANDLER is set to database:
define('SESSION_SAVE_HANDLER', 'database');
Step 8: Launch Easy!Appointments
Finally, launch your web browser and navigate to your server's IP address or domain name followed by /index.php. This should bring up the Easy!Appointments installation wizard where you can configure further settings and start using the software.
In this tutorial, we have demonstrated how to install Easy!Appointments on Alpine Linux. After installation, you can customize the software to meet your appointment scheduling needs.
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