@Robert Hale
Please Robert before you give up on this amazing EHR try this first:
Look up this video and follow it to the letter:
The only deviation I did since I had it installed on ubuntu 19 desktop is the “adding user” since ubuntu 19 uses php 7.3 and not 7.2
you can copy and paste the commands from his website that discusses the same installation:
again I am not sure with php 7.4 how adding user changes, it could be the same command line Sandra mentioned in her comment in this thread, if you try ubuntu 18 so you follow his instructions without any changes made then it will be great (if ubuntu 18 is ok with you -desktop ubuntu-)
Please pay attention when your installation is completed to step 6
Before you click to proceed to step 7 you need to do this:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/openemr.conf
then you copy this to the .conf:
<Directory “/var/www/html/openemr”>
AllowOverride FileInfo
Require all granted
<Directory “/var/www/html/openemr/sites”>
AllowOverride None
<Directory “/var/www/html/openemr/sites/*/documents”>
Require all denied
then exit and save.
After that you click to proceed to step 7 and you will be up and running.
Please give it a try and I am sure it will work.