Easy!Appointments is a flexible and easy-to-use online appointment scheduling software that allows you to manage your appointments, customers, and employees. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Easy!Appointments on EndeavourOS latest version.
First, you need to download the latest version of Easy!Appointments from the official website. You can visit the following link to download the software:
https://easyappointments.org/download/
Once the download is complete, extract the archive and copy it to the /var/www/html/ directory.
# cd ~/Downloads
# tar -xzf easyappointments-X.X.X.tar.gz
# sudo mv easyappointments-X.X.X /var/www/html/easyappointments
Before you can use Easy!Appointments, you need to install some dependencies. To do that, run the following command in your terminal:
# sudo apt-get install php-curl php-zip php-gd php-mysql php-xml php-mbstring
Next, you need to create a MySQL database for Easy!Appointments. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:
# mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE easyappointments;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON easyappointments.* TO 'ea_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Your-Password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> EXIT;
Note: Replace 'Your-Password' with a strong password.
To configure Easy!Appointments, you need to create a copy of the config-sample.php file and rename it config.php:
# cd /var/www/html/easyappointments
# cp config-sample.php config.php
Then, open the config.php file using a text editor and update the database connection details:
$config['db']['host'] = 'localhost'; // Edit this line with your MySQL host name.
$config['db']['user'] = 'ea_user'; // Replace with your MySQL database username.
$config['db']['pass'] = 'Your-Password'; // Replace with your MySQL database password.
$config['db']['name'] = 'easyappointments'; // Replace with your MySQL database name.
After that, save the file and exit the text editor.
Easy!Appointments requires some PHP libraries to run, which you can install using Composer. To install Composer on your system, run the following command in your terminal:
# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Once Composer is installed, navigate to the Easy!Appointments directory and run the following command:
# composer install
This will install all required dependencies.
Before you can proceed, you need to set the proper file permissions for Easy!Appointments:
# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/easyappointments
# chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/easyappointments
To complete the installation, run the Easy!Appointments installer by accessing the following URL in your web browser:
http://localhost/easyappointments/install/
Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. Once the installation is complete, you can access Easy!Appointments by visiting:
http://localhost/easyappointments/
That's it! You have successfully installed Easy!Appointments on EndeavourOS. You can now start using Easy!Appointments to manage your appointments, customers, and employees.
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