Cannot Open OpenEmr Over Windows XP Network

anonymous wrote on Saturday, September 01, 2012:

I installed OpenEMR by downloading and installing  the XAMPP – OpenEMR 4.1.0 Windows zip file. It is installed onto a computer running Windows XP. OpenEMR opens on the computer I installed it to. However when I go to a browser on another computer on the office network it does not open. I’ve tried typing in http://computername/openemr in the browser and tried substituting the IP address of the computer which OpenEMR is installed on. No connection is made to OpenEMR.

Doing a web search for this problem  I’ve found recommendations to change the Apache settings to allow access over the network. Does this apply to the installation with the installation file I used, and if so how do I adjust the Apache settings? Anything else I should be doing to get this to work over my network?

anonymous wrote on Saturday, September 01, 2012:

Found the solution-no need to change Apache settings. I added “C:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe” as an exception to the firewall and it is working over the office network.

Some day I’ll see if I can figure out how to access this over the internet from offsite. For now I’ll use gotomypc.

cverk wrote on Sunday, September 02, 2012:

Here is an approach I outlined before for remote access under windows.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openemr/forums/forum/202504/topic/5486837

anonymous wrote on Saturday, September 08, 2012:

Is there an advantage to using WIndows Live as opposed to gotomypc?

Ultimately I am wondering if this could be set up to allow home computers to sign onto OpenEMR hosted on an office computer over the internet as opposed to remotely controlling a computer. However unless someone were to post easy instructions to do this I am going to hold off on this for now. There are so many other things which I need to figure out first.