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WarningUse at your own risk. Cal.diy is the open source community edition of Cal.com and it is intended for users who want to self-host their own Cal.diy instance. It is strictly recommended for personal, non-production use. Please review all installation and configuration steps carefully. Self-hosting requires advanced knowledge of server administration, database management, and securing sensitive data. Proceed only if you are comfortable with these responsibilities. TipFor any commercial and enterprise-ready scheduling infrastructure, use Cal.com, not Cal.diy; hosted by us or get invited to on-prem enterprise access here: https://cal.com/sales Cal.diy About Cal.diy Cal.diy is the community-driven, fully open-source scheduling platform — a fork of Cal.com with all enterprise/commercial code removed. Cal.diy is 100% MIT-licensed with no proprietary "Enterprise Edition" features. It's designed for individuals and self-hosters who want full control over their scheduling infrastructure without any commercial dependencies. What's different from Cal.com? No enterprise features — Teams, Organizations, Insights, Workflows, SSO/SAML, and other EE-only features have been removed No license key required — Everything works out of the box, no Cal.com account or license needed 100% open source — The entire codebase is licensed under MIT, no "Open Core" split Community-maintained — Contributions are welcome and go directly into this project (see CONTRIBUTING.md) Note: Cal.diy is a self-hosted project. There is no hosted/managed version. You run it on your own infrastructure. Built With Next.js tRPC React.js Tailwind CSS Prisma.io Daily.co Getting Started To get a local copy up and running, please follow these simple steps. Prerequisites Here is what you need to be able to run Cal.diy. Node.js (Version: >=18.x) PostgreSQL (Version: >=13.x) Yarn (recommended) If you want to enable any of the available integrations, you may want to obtain additional credentials for each one. More details on this can be found below under the integrations section.
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Development Setup Clone the repo (or fork https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy/fork) git clone https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy.git If you are on Windows, run the following command on gitbash with admin privileges: > git clone -c core.symlinks=true https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy.git Go to the project folder cd cal.diy Install packages with yarn yarn Set up your .env file Duplicate .env.example to .env Use openssl rand -base64 32 to generate a key and add it under NEXTAUTH_SECRET in the .env file. Use openssl rand -base64 24 to generate a key and add it under CALENDSO_ENCRYPTION_KEY in the .env file. Windows users: Replace the packages/prisma/.env symlink with a real copy to avoid a Prisma error (unexpected character / in variable name): # Git Bash / WSL rm packages/prisma/.env && cp .env packages/prisma/.env Setup Node If your Node version does not meet the project's requirements as instructed by the docs, "nvm" (Node Version Manager) allows using Node at the version required by the project: nvm use You first might need to install the specific version and then use it: nvm install && nvm use You can install nvm from here. Quick start with yarn dx Requires Docker and Docker Compose to be installed Will start a local Postgres instance with a few test users - the credentials will be logged in the console yarn dx Default credentials created: Email Password Role free@example.com free Free user pro@example.com pro Pro user trial@example.com trial Trial user admin@example.com ADMINadmin2022!
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Admin user onboarding@example.com onboarding Onboarding incomplete You can use any of these credentials to sign in at http://localhost:3000 Tip: To view the full list of seeded users and their details, run yarn db-studio and visit http://localhost:5555 Development tip Add export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=16384" to your shell script to increase the memory limit for the node process. Alternatively, you can run this in your terminal before running the app. Replace 16384 with the amount of RAM you want to allocate to the node process. Add NEXT_PUBLIC_LOGGER_LEVEL={level} to your .env file to control the logging verbosity for all tRPC queries and mutations. Where {level} can be one of the following: 0 for silly 1 for trace 2 for debug 3 for info 4 for warn 5 for error 6 for fatal When you set NEXT_PUBLIC_LOGGER_LEVEL={level} in your .env file, it enables logging at that level and higher. Here's how it works: The logger will include all logs that are at the specified level or higher. For example: \ If you set NEXT_PUBLIC_LOGGER_LEVEL=2, it will log from level 2 (debug) upwards, meaning levels 2 (debug), 3 (info), 4 (warn), 5 (error), and 6 (fatal) will be logged. \ If you set NEXT_PUBLIC_LOGGER_LEVEL=3, it will log from level 3 (info) upwards, meaning levels 3 (info), 4 (warn), 5 (error), and 6 (fatal) will be logged, but level 2 (debug) and level 1 (trace) will be ignored. \ echo 'NEXT_PUBLIC_LOGGER_LEVEL=3' >> .env for Logger level to be set at info, for example. Gitpod Setup Click the button below to open this project in Gitpod. This will open a fully configured workspace in your browser with all the necessary dependencies already installed. Manual setup Configure environment variables in the .env file.
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Replace <user>, <pass>, <db-host>, and <db-port> with their applicable values DATABASE_URL='postgresql://<user>:<pass>@<db-host>:<db-port>' If you don't know how to configure the DATABASE_URL, then follow the steps here to create a quick local DB Download and install postgres in your local (if you don't have it already). Create your own local db by executing createDB <DB name> Now open your psql shell with the DB you created: psql -h localhost -U postgres -d <DB name> Inside the psql shell execute \conninfo. And you will get the following info. Now extract all the info and add it to your DATABASE_URL. The url would look something like this postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/Your-DB-Name. The port is configurable and does not have to be 5432. If you don't want to create a local DB. Then you can also consider using services like railway.app, Northflank or render. Setup postgres DB with railway.app Setup postgres DB with Northflank Setup postgres DB with render Copy and paste your DATABASE_URL from .env to .env.appStore. Set up the database using the Prisma schema (found in packages/prisma/schema.prisma) In a development environment, run: yarn workspace @calcom/prisma db-migrate In a production environment, run: yarn workspace @calcom/prisma db-deploy Run mailhog to view emails sent during development NOTE: Required when E2E_TEST_MAILHOG_ENABLED is "1" docker pull mailhog/mailhog docker run -d -p 8025:8025 -p 1025:1025 mailhog/mailhog Run (in development mode) yarn dev Setting up your first user Approach 1 Open Prisma Studio to look at or modify the database content: yarn db-studio Click on the User model to add a new user record. Fill out the fields email, username, password, and set metadata to empty {} (remembering to encrypt your password with BCrypt) and click Save 1 Record to create your first user.
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New users are set on a TRIAL plan by default. You might want to adjust this behavior to your needs in the packages/prisma/schema.prisma file. Open a browser to http://localhost:3000 and login with your just created, first user. Approach 2 Seed the local db by running cd packages/prisma yarn db-seed The above command will populate the local db with dummy users. E2E-Testing Be sure to set the environment variable NEXTAUTH_URL to the correct value. If you are running locally, as the documentation within .env.example mentions, the value should be http://localhost:3000. # In a terminal just run: yarn test-e2e # To open the last HTML report run: yarn playwright show-report test-results/reports/playwright-html-report Resolving issues E2E test browsers not installed Run npx playwright install to download test browsers and resolve the error below when running yarn test-e2e: Executable doesn't exist at /Users/alice/Library/Caches/ms-playwright/chromium-1048/chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium Upgrading from earlier versions Pull the current version: git pull Check if dependencies got added/updated/removed yarn Apply database migrations by running one of the following commands: In a development environment, run: yarn workspace @calcom/prisma db-migrate (This can clear your development database in some cases) In a production environment, run: yarn workspace @calcom/prisma db-deploy Check for .env variables changes yarn predev Start the server. In a development environment, just do: yarn dev For a production build, run for example: yarn build yarn start Enjoy the new version. Deployment Docker The Docker image can be found on DockerHub at https://hub.docker.com/r/calcom/cal.diy. Note for ARM Users: Use the {version}-arm suffix for pulling images. Example: docker pull calcom/cal.diy:v5.6.19-arm. Requirements Make sure you have docker & docker compose installed on the server / system.
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Both are installed by most docker utilities, including Docker Desktop and Rancher Desktop. Note: docker compose without the hyphen is now the primary method of using docker-compose, per the Docker documentation. Running Cal.diy with Docker Compose Clone the repository git clone --recursive https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy.git Change into the directory cd cal.diy Prepare your configuration: Rename .env.example to .env and then update .env cp .env.example .env Most configurations can be left as-is, but for configuration options see Important Run-time variables below. Required Secret Keys Before starting, you must generate secure values for NEXTAUTH_SECRET and CALENDSO_ENCRYPTION_KEY. Using the default secret placeholder in production is a security risk. Generate NEXTAUTH_SECRET (cookie encryption key): openssl rand -base64 32 Generate CALENDSO_ENCRYPTION_KEY (must be 32 bytes for AES256): openssl rand -base64 24 Update your .env file with these values: NEXTAUTH_SECRET=<your_generated_secret> CALENDSO_ENCRYPTION_KEY=<your_generated_key> Push Notifications (VAPID Keys) If you see an error like: Error: No key set vapidDetails.publicKey This means your environment variables for Web Push are missing. You must generate and set NEXT_PUBLIC_VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY and VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY. Generate them with: npx web-push generate-vapid-keys Then update your .env file: NEXT_PUBLIC_VAPID_PUBLIC_KEY=your_public_key_here VAPID_PRIVATE_KEY=your_private_key_here Do not commit real keys to .env.example — only placeholders. Update the appropriate values in your .env file, then proceed.