Meetable is a platform for creating events and managing RSVPs. It's open-source and can be installed on your own server. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of Meetable on MXLinux Latest.
Before getting started, ensure that your system has the following prerequisites:
First, we need to install some required packages for Meetable:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y curl gnupg2 ca-certificates lsb-release
Next, we need to add the Meetable GPG key to the system using the following command.
curl -sS https://deb.events.indieweb.org/events-gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
After adding the key, verify it using the following command:
sudo apt-key fingerprint 5105C5B5E5E8D5FC
This should output the fingerprint of the Meetable GPG key.
After adding the GPG key, we need to add the Meetable repository to the APT source list.
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://deb.events.indieweb.org/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/meetable.list
After adding the repository, update the package list to include the newly added repository:
sudo apt update
In this step, we will install Apache and PHP, which are required for Meetable to work.
sudo apt install -y apache2 libapache2-mod-php
After installing Apache and PHP, we can now install Meetable using the following command:
sudo apt install -y events-meetable
After installing Meetable, open the configuration file using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/events/meetable.yml
Edit the file and update the following configurations:
baseUrl: "https://example.com" # Change example.com with your domain name
database:
dsn: "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=meetable" # Change ‘meetable’ to your database name
user: "meetableuser" # Change ‘meetableuser’ to your MySQL username
password: "password" # Change ‘password’ to your Mysql password
Save and close the file.
After configuring Meetable, we need to enable some Apache modules and restart the Apache service using the following commands:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2enmod headers
sudo systemctl restart apache2
After completing all the above steps, you should now be able to access Meetable by navigating to your domain name.
For example, if your domain name is example.com, navigate to https://example.com.
You have now successfully installed Meetable on MXLinux Latest. You can now create events, manage RSVPs and customize the platform to fit your needs.
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