Easy!Appointments is an open-source appointment scheduling application that can be used for various businesses such as doctors, lawyers, gym trainers, hairdressers, and others. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Easy!Appointments on Manjaro.
You can download Easy!Appointments from its official website by clicking on the "Downloads" tab or directly from this URL: https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments/releases/latest. Download the latest version of the application.
Once the download is complete, extract the downloaded file to the Apache web server root directory using the following command:
sudo tar -xvf easyappointments_X.X.X.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
Make sure to substitute X.X.X with the actual version number downloaded.
Navigate to the extracted directory and set permissions using the following command:
cd /var/www/html/easyappointments_X.X.X/
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .
sudo chmod -R 755 .
Create a new database for Easy!Appointments using the following commands:
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE easyappointments_db;
CREATE USER 'eauser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'eapassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON easyappointments_db.* TO 'eauser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit;
Make sure to substitute eapassword with a strong password.
Browse to http://localhost/easyappointments_X.X.X/ and follow the prompts to configure the application. You will need to enter the database details, including the database name, the database user credentials, and the host name (usually "localhost").
After completing the installation, test your application by browsing to http://localhost/easyappointments_X.X.X/ and create an appointment.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Easy!Appointments on Manjaro Linux.
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