How to Install phimail certificate in AWS Instance of OpenEMR

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We have installed a version of OpenEMR Express from the AWS Marketplace. We are quite interested in getting Direct Messaging going… We need some information on how to install the file “phimail_server.pem” into the specific instance of this installation…

The instructions say to install as follows:

[installation_root]/sites/[site_id]/documents/phimail_server_pem/phimail_server.pem

But we are not sure where the [installation_root] is on our EC2 Instance within AWS? Is there anyone that could help us with this?

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Installation root should be the folder where openemr is installed.

So if you are using the Open EMR version from AWS it is most likely running in a docker container, so you would need to do a few things.

  • Get the pem file into the EC2 instance via sFTP or some other method
  • log in to your EC2 instance via ssh
  • run sudo -i
  • run docker ps -a to find out which is your openemr docker container
  • run the following command
docker cp [certificate.pem] [containerID]:/var/www/localhost/htdocs/openemr/sites/[site_id]/documents/phimail_server_pem/
  • replace [certificate.pem] with the path of where you copied the pem on your EC2 instance so for example if you copied it to the home folder it would be: /home/certificate.pem
  • replace [containerID] with the container id you get from running docker ps -a
  • replace [site_id] with the side id if you only have a single site this should be set to default
  • and once you run this command after replacing all those values it will be in the right directory

Good luck

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Benjamin,
Thank you so much for answering the call! I will post here after we have given these instructions a go…

Damian J Kiska
Sr. Interoperability Solution Architect
Roche Information Solutions
Damian.Kiska@Roche.com

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No problem, glad to help :wink:

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It worked! My colleague, Todd Lomaro, and I were able to follow your directions and engage with the DirectMessage sandbox/test system… We really appreciate your help! Please look me up on LinkedIn, and I would be glad to connect with you.
Cheers,
Damian

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@Damian_Kiska glad to hear it worked :+1: