daknob/rendezvous

Rendezvous

Rendezvous

Rendezvous implements a web-based system for booking appointments for examination. The appointment booking portion (Rendezvous) has been used extensively in multiple courses at the University of Crete over the course of the last few years.

This is a derivative work of the Submit-Rendezvous project.

For licensing information please see the LICENSE file.

Setup

In order to run Rendezvous for a particular class, you need to ssh into the server and switch to your web directory, e.g. by running:

cd public_html

If you already have another copy of RV installed, you can remove it by running for example:

rm -fR rv

And now you can download a fresh copy of the software by running:

git clone https://github.com/zakkak/rendezvous.git rv

You can replace rv with anything else you want, and the website will be available in the proper path. Right now, this will be /rv/.

WARNING: This will install the latest version of rendezvous which may be under development. Although it will most likely work, you may want to use a release. You can cd inside the folder and then run:

git tag -l

This will show you a list of versions / releases of the software that are available, and you can select one (e.g. the latest) by running:

git checkout v3.1.0

where v3.1.0 is the version of rendezvous you want to install.

You can now find a file named conf.php that contains important variables you should edit. These include the website title, as well as some additional pieces of text. Within this file there's also the $admins array that includes a list of e-mail addresses of the instance administrators that can create slots, view reservations, etc.

You can now visit the website in which you set up the software, and proceed with all the needed changes there. On your first visit, the database will be created and everything will be installed and initialized properly.