Croodle is an open-source web-based scheduling application that allows you to schedule appointments and meetings with multiple participants. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Croodle on Arch Linux.
Before installing Croodle, you will need the following:
Croodle is available on GitHub, so you will need Git installed to clone the repository. Composer is also required to install Croodle's dependencies.
To install Git and Composer, run the following command in the terminal:
pacman -S git composer
Next, clone the Croodle repository from GitHub by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/jelhan/croodle.git
This will create a directory called croodle in your current working directory.
Change into the croodle directory and run the following command to install Croodle's dependencies:
cd croodle
composer install --no-dev
Croodle uses a database to store data such as user accounts, appointments, and meeting preferences. We will use MySQL as the database server in this tutorial.
Ensure that the MySQL server is installed and running on your system. You can install it using the following command:
pacman -S mysql
systemctl start mysqld
systemctl enable mysqld
Once MySQL is running, create a new database for Croodle and a new MySQL user with permissions to access the database:
mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE croodle;
CREATE USER 'croodleuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON croodle.* TO 'croodleuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace password with a strong password for the new MySQL user.
Croodle comes with a configuration file called config.php.dist. Copy this file to config.php by running the following command:
cp config.php.dist config.php
Open config.php in your favorite text editor, and replace the following values with the information for your web server and database:
$config['app_url'] = 'http://localhost/croodle'; // The URL of your Croodle installation
$config['db_type'] = 'mysql';
$config['db_host'] = 'localhost'; // The hostname of your MySQL server
$config['db_name'] = 'croodle'; // The name of the database you created
$config['db_user'] = 'croodleuser'; // The MySQL user you created
$config['db_pass'] = 'password'; // The password for the MySQL user you created
Save and close the file.
Create a new virtual host configuration file for Croodle in the Apache conf.d directory, where Apache stores its virtual host configuration files:
sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/croodle.conf
Paste the following configuration into the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName your-domain.com # Replace with your actual domain name
DocumentRoot /path-to-croodle-directory/croodle
<Directory /path-to-croodle-directory/croodle>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/croodle-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/croodle-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Replace your-domain.com and /path-to-croodle-directory with your actual domain name and the path to the croodle directory.
Save and close the file.
Restart Apache for the changes to take effect:
systemctl restart httpd
Change into the croodle directory and run the following command to create the necessary database tables:
php bin/install.php
You can now access Croodle by visiting the domain name you specified in your virtual host configuration file. You will be redirected to the installation page, where you can set up a new user account and start using Croodle.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Croodle on Arch Linux.
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