Easy!Appointments is an open-source, web-based appointment and event scheduling software. It is easy to use, flexible, and customizable. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Easy!Appointments on Arch Linux.
Before we start, you should have the following:
The first step is to update the Arch Linux system to the latest version. To do this, run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Easy!Appointments requires the following packages to be installed:
To install these packages, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S mariadb php apache
Once the installation is complete, start the Apache web server and MariaDB service and enable them to start automatically on system boot:
sudo systemctl start httpd.service
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
Next, log in to the MariaDB server as the root user:
sudo mariadb -u root
Create a new database and user for Easy!Appointments:
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE easyappointments;
MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 'easy'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON easyappointments.* TO 'easy'@'localhost';
MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
MariaDB [(none)]> exit;
Make sure to replace password
with a strong password.
Download the latest version of Easy!Appointments from the official website or use the following command to download it:
wget https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments/releases/download/1.4.2/easyappointments-1.4.2.zip
Extract the downloaded file:
unzip easyappointments-1.4.2.zip
Copy the extracted files to the document root directory of your web server:
sudo cp -r easyappointments/* /srv/http/
Copy the config.sample.php
file to config.php
:
cd /srv/http/
sudo cp config.sample.php config.php
Then, edit the config.php
file and modify the following parameters:
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['default']['username'] = 'easy';
$db['default']['password'] = 'password';
$db['default']['database'] = 'easyappointments';
Make sure to replace the password
with the actual password you set for the easy
user in Step 3.
Change the ownership of the Easy!Appointments directory to the web server user (in this tutorial, we are using Apache):
sudo chown -R http:http /srv/http/
Open your web browser and go to http://your_server_ip/
or http://localhost/
. You should see the Easy!Appointments installation page.
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and configure Easy!Appointments on Arch Linux. You can now use it to manage your appointments and events in a convenient and flexible way.
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