Install Easy!Appointments on Linux [Opensource Appointment Scheduler System] 🌱

What is Easy!Appointments?

Easy!Appointments is a highly customizable web application that allows customers to book appointments with you via a sophisticated web interface. Moreover, it provides the ability to sync your data with Google Calendar so you can use them with other services. It is an open source project that you can download and install even for commercial use. Easy!Appointments will run smoothly with your existing website as it can be installed in a single folder of the server and of course share an existing database. -https://github.com/alextselegidis/easyappointments#about

Installation

1. Log into the Linux device
2. Run the following commands in a terminal window:
   # update software repositories
   sudo apt update
   # install available software updates
   sudo apt upgrade -y
   # install prerequisites
   sudo apt install curl wget zip -y
   # install Apache HTTPD and MySQL
   sudo apt install apache2 mariadb-server mariadb-client -y
   # install PHP components
   sudo apt install php7.4 php7.4-curl php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-mysqli php7.4-mysql -y
   # configure the MySQL database
   sudo su
   mysql_secure_installation
3. Press Enter to login as root
4. Type N and press Enter to not switch to unix socket authentication
5. Type Y and press Enter to set a root password, type the password twice to confirm
6. Type Y and press Enter to remove anonymous users
7. Type Y and press Enter to disallow root login remotely
8. Type Y and press Enter to remove the test database
9. Type Y and press Enter to reload privilege tables
10. Run the following command to login into MySQL:
    mysql -u root -p
11. Authenticate with the root password set earlier
12. Run the following commands to create the Easy!Appointments database and database user
    CREATE DATABASE easy_appointments;
    GRANT ALL ON easy_appointments.* to 'easy_appointments_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'EasyAppo1ntm3nts!!';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    EXIT;
    exit
13. Continue with the following commands:
    # fetch the latest download URL
    regex='"browser_download_url": "(https:\/\/github.com\/alextselegidis\/easyappointments\/releases\/download\/[^/]*\/easyappointments-[^/]*\.zip)"' && response=$(curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" https://api.github.com/repos/alextselegidis/easyappointments/releases/latest) && [[ $response =~ $regex ]] && downloadURL="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
    # download the latest release
    wget -O easyappointments.zip $downloadURL
    # create target directory
    sudo mkdir /var/www/html/easyappointments
    # extract the downloaded zip to /var/www/html/easyappointments
    sudo unzip ./easyappointments.zip -d /var/www/html/easyappointments
    # set the owner of the easyappointments directory
    sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/easyappointments
    # copy sample config file
    sudo cp /var/www/html/easyappointments/config-sample.php /var/www/html/easyappointments/config.php
    # edit config.php
    sudo nano /var/www/html/easyappointments/config.php
14. Scroll down to the const BASE_URL variable and set the value to the IP address or DNS name of the host

    const BASE_URL = 'http://localhost/easyappointments';

15. Press CTRL+W and search for db_name
16. Update or add the following configuration

    const DB_HOST = 'localhost';
    const DB_NAME = 'easy_appointments';
    const DB_USERNAME = 'easy_appointments_rw';
    const DB_PASSWORD = 'EasyAppo1ntm3nts!!';

17. Press CTRL+O, Enter, CTRL+X to write the changes

Easy!Appointments Web Installer

1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/easyappointments
2. The Easy!Appointments Installation web installer should be load
3. Complete the Administrator and Company form fields > Click Install Easy!Appointments
4. Welcome to Easy!Appointments