In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing QloApps on macOS. QloApps is an open-source hotel and booking management software, which can be downloaded from the official website https://qloapps.com/.
Prerequisites
- macOS
- XAMPP
Installing XAMPP on macOS
- Visit the official Apache Friends website at https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html
- Click on the Download button for XAMPP for macOS.
- Open the downloaded .dmg file to start the installation.
- Follow the installation wizard, and agree to the terms of service to complete the installation process.
Installing QloApps
- Download QloApps from the official website https://qloapps.com/download/
- Extract the QloApps zip file downloaded in step 1 to the htdocs folder in the XAMPP installation folder. (i.e
/Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/qloapps/).
- Rename the extracted folder to
qloapps so that the website can be accessed by going to http://localhost/qloapps in your browser.
- Open the XAMPP control panel and start the Apache server and MySQL.
- Open a web browser and go to
http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
- Create a new database for QloApps by clicking on the New button on the left sidebar, and giving it a name such as
qloapps_db.
- Click on the newly created database name from the left sidebar and click on Import.
- Click on Choose file and navigate to the directory where you have extracted the QloApps zip file.
- Select the
qloapps_db.sql file from the directory and click on Go to import the database.
- Open
http://localhost/qloapps in your web browser to start the installation process of QloApps and follow the steps.
- Once the installation process is complete, you can start using QloApps as your hotel and booking management software.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed QloApps on your macOS machine.
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