Hosted OpenEMR
From OpenEMR Project Wiki
Foreword
Installation of OpenEMR will require a number of distinct steps that often trip up the user in a hosted environment.
OpenEMR Location
- Open File Manager in cPanel.
- Select your domain's document root. Make sure you are in your domain's public_html folder.
- Upload openemr folder with all sub directories in it. You can zip and then extract it from your File Manager.
- Now the application has been hosted in www.yourdomain.com/openemr.
MySQL Creation
- You have to setup your database. Go back to your cPanel -> select Database Wizard.
- Database Creation Tutorial.
- Pay close attention to Permissions.
- Note down the credentials.
OpenEMR Setup
- Open the browser and navigate to www.yourdomain.com/openemr to start the installation.
- There will a series of entries which are very different from a localhost installation.
- In Step 1 select second option, "I have already created the database".
- In Step 2 pay close attention to your entries in the MySQL Server section.
- The Server Host is not localhost, but the IP address of the server running MySQL.
- Enter the Database Name, Login Name and Password from MySQL Creation above.
- The User Hostname is not localhost, but the IP address of the server running Apache/PHP.
- Complete the setup according to the Linux Installation Guide.
- Be certain the collation of lang_constants, lang_custom, lang_definitions and lang_languages tables of your database matches that in the most current Demo.
Article courtesy of Jeyasithar of the OpenEMR Forums.
