After Installation of OpenEMR

[Geekoyz (Chris)]

Hi, everyone! I’m new to the group, and I’d like to thank you for inviting me here. I’m really curious, especially as a beginner without any prior knowledge in programming or development.

I was wondering if there’s a guide we can follow—from installation to the steps needed to make a project accessible live—so we can start testing without worrying about whether everything was installed correctly.

I’d greatly appreciate it if someone could share guidance on what to do after installation, such as setting up SSL certification, domain installation, or any other helpful instructions. This would be incredibly valuable not just for me but for others in the community as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[htuck (htuck@mi-squared.com)]

Hi @Geekoyz
Welcome to the community!
Yes, indeed, instructions are available, and being one of the best maintained FOSS projects on the internet, they are openly available to everybody. And being FOSS, basically everything about OpenEMR is available online though you might have to put out some effort to discover it.

The OpenEMR git-hub repo, its wiki and this forum have everything ever coded, written or asked, respectively, about this project.

Here’s a forum search to get you started in your quest:

And here’s one about using the wiki:

HOWTO: use the OpenEMR wiki

Hi Folks- Countless questions are asked here in the forum that can be answered by looking in the OpenEMR wiki, but nobody seems to know about its existence. Of course not ALL questions can be answered there but I came up with a brief tour of the OpenEMR wiki hoping it would improve peoples awareness of available resources. I’ve been working with a leading OpenEMR vendor giving user support for appx 10 years so I think I have a grip on the subject. The OpenEMR wiki does look pretty disorganiz…

You can perform your own forum and wiki searches on using git-hub. I’m a Userland kinda guy not a dev, so do not know my way around git-hub.

To directly address one of your questions, the wiki does indeed have all the instructions needed to install and config OpenEMR. Here’s the first search you can do:
https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Installation_Guides

Then you can look through the user guide
https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_7.0.2_Users_Guide
and see what to do with it once you have things installed and working:

Don’t worry, though, you are definitely not being left hanging out on your own. The community is always happy to answer specific questions on this forum about your issues with OpenEMR.

Good luck and see you around the forum!
Best- Harley