We installed Open EMR from the web.
We would like to put it on a server so we can customize it in more detail.
Do I need to buy a domain?
The answer depends totally on if you need to access openEMR remotely (meaning outside of the local area network of the server where it’s installed) or only locally (meaning within the LAN of the server, as in on-site).
If you want to access it remotely, yes, you’ll need a domain. Part of the installation of openEMR is attaching that domain name via a web server (like apache for instance). In general it’s not advisable to do this unless you are very familiar with network security and system administration. There’s just a lot of ways things can go wrong once exposed to the WWW.
If you only need local access, you don’t have to worry about a domain because you’ll access the server either directly from the machine where it’s installed or “remotely” from a different machine on the same LAN (using the local IP of the server).
How can I locate which server my domain is dowloaded on? When we search the downloads on our computer - Open EMR does not come up.
My developer has sent this - **I installed OpenEMR on that domain’s server, and all the clients provided me with the server details where they wanted it installed. I then placed all the OpenEMR databases and files on that server, so they could access it from anywhere simply by entering the EMR domain that I had set up.
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Due to the following note - we need it Open EMR installed on a server.Locally installed means generated url will not accessible anywhere except my computer , and also I need to use this after starting the XAMPP local server..
You will only need to buy a domain if you will need to access openEMR from outside the network where it is installed.
I’m not sure waht “locate which server my domain is downloaded on” means. Domains are not downloaded anywhere. OpenEMR is installed to wherever you downloaded and extracted the files to. If you want to do that on a server that you
buy, then it depends where that server is. If you have it on your own local network, you don’t need a domain (http://localhost/openemr). If it’s remote (e.g., on a VPS, on a cloud service like AWS, on a physical machine you own that’s offsite,) then you need a domain to access it as an end-user and a way to ssh to manage the installation.
Yeah I ran into that issue the other day I was trying to use local Host and I’ve started picking up on that