Express install script - an easier setup

OpenEMR Development
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markleeds wrote on Saturday, June 28, 2008:

I put together a script last night that may make the installation/setup process easier for some people.  I tested with XAMPP on Windows XP.  This takes advantage of the fact that you don’t really have to worry about permissions so the script can alter files and rename a directory without any complaints.

The script name is express.php.  It is now under /openemr/contrib/util/express.php in cvs.  To test it, move it to /openemr/express.php and point your browser at it.  It justs asks for a single name and hit the submit button.  The database, user, password etc… will be named from this one name.  At the end, the /openemr directory (or whatever yours is named) will also be renamed to this name.

I tested this with the current 2.8.3 release with XAMPP and Windows XP.  I made a bunch of separate installations very quickly with it.  If it works for others and is helpful, maybe it could be made a part of the standard installation script.  A lot of it was cut and pasted from the existing setup.

Please try and let me know if it works and is useful.

Mark

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markleeds wrote on Monday, June 30, 2008:

Never mind.  I should have known it was too good to be true.  It worked on that one Windows XP machine.  I tried it on another with the latest cvs code, and first the sqlconf thing didn’t work.  I then manually changed the permissions and then the directory renaming function was denied access.

It would be great if somehow xampp could be custom configured to install with OpenEMR included.