How to install Easy!Appointments on nixOS Latest?

Easy!Appointments is a popular and free web-based appointment scheduling application, which has been developed using PHP and JavaScript technologies that help businesses to manage appointments online. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Easy!Appointments on nixOS latest.

Step 1: Update your NixOS System

Before we begin, make sure your nixOS system is up to date. To do this, open your terminal and run the following command:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

Step 2: Install PHP, Web Server, and MariaDB

To use Easy!Appointments, you need to install PHP, web server and MariaDB database on your nixOS.

To install PHP from Nixpkgs, run:

sudo nix-env -i php

To get Apache web server, run:

sudo nix-env -i apache

To install MariaDB from Nixpkgs, run:

sudo nix-env -i mariadb

Step 3: Download and Extract Easy!Appointments

Next, download and extract Easy!Appointments from the official website. In this tutorial, we will be downloading the latest version which is 2.4.0.

wget https://github.com/linroex/easyappointments/releases/download/2.4.0/easyappointments-2.4.0.zip
unzip easyappointments-2.4.0.zip

Then, move the extracted Easy!Appointments directory to the Apache web server document root directory:

sudo mv easyappointments /var/www/html/

Step 4: Configure Database Connection

After you’ve moved the Easy!Appointments directory to the web server document root directory, you need to configure the database connection.

First, run MariaDB and create a new database:

sudo systemctl start mariadb
sudo mysqladmin -u root password your_password
sudo mysql -u root -p -e "create database ea;"

Make sure you replace your_password with your choice of password.

After that, go to the config-sample.php and create a copy of this file and rename it config.php. This will contain your database configuration:

cd /var/www/html/easyappointments
cp config-sample.php config.php

Now, open config.php file and head to the database section. In the database configuration section, replace root, your_password and ea with your MariaDB database username, password, and database name:

$ea_settings = array(
    'database' => array(
        'hostname' => 'localhost',
        'username' => 'root',
        'password' => 'your_password',
        'database' => 'ea',
        'prefix'   => 'ea_',
        'charset'  => 'utf8'
    ),
    ...
)

Step 5: Set Permissions

Finally, set Apache web server's user and group to the webserver document root directory’s owner and group:

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/easyappointments/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/easyappointments/

Step 6: Access Easy!Appointments

Now, you can access Easy!Appointments through your web browser by entering your server’s IP address or domain name in the URL bar:

http://your_server_ip/easyappointments

If you followed all the steps in this tutorial correctly, you should see the Easy!Appointments login page.

That’s it! You have successfully installed and configured Easy!Appointments on nixOS Latest. You can now start using it for scheduling appointments.