How to upload openemr demo

aterad wrote on Wednesday, October 22, 2014:

Hello, i need help on how to upload the openemr demo version. What I mean is that, lets say i have a site say, www.abcd.com and i now want the demo site to be www.demo.abcd.com as a subdomain. Thanks

fr4nkie wrote on Wednesday, October 22, 2014:

Assuming the use of Apache, read through this and see if you can make some sense out of it. You may also need to add an entry to your domain registrar for those settings to work.

fsgl wrote on Wednesday, October 22, 2014:

If you already have a hosting service, ask Support.

If not, some general setup directions for WordPress. Browse through their Help/Support webpages or their forum.

aterad wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2014:

@frankie, thanks for your response. I cant get anything from your comment,please help out.
@fsgl, thanks boss. I already have a hosting account. Now, what do i do? Is there a download file for openemr demo just like the main openemr file,where i can download and upload as a subdomain to my hosting account or is it the regular openemr 4.1.2 file that will be uploaded to hosting with some tweaking to make it appear as a demo? Thanks

fsgl wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2014:

See this.

Only difference will be “admin” & “pass” for login. Or whatever you choose.

aterad wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2014:

@fsgl, thanks much, the link and what you said have been helpfull,however, the information is for fully funtional installation. But what i want is how to do the same installation for an openemr demo. Pls help. Thanks sir

fsgl wrote on Thursday, October 23, 2014:

Use above for demo & let visitors know the login credentials, e.g. admin/pass.

You will have to ask Brady, brady@sparmy.com, how to reset the demo to resuscitate it periodically. Visitors will do wacky things to the demo.

If there is no access to the command-line, resetting would be impossible on a hosted site. I think Brady keeps the Demo’s on VM’s from his own server.

bradymiller wrote on Friday, October 24, 2014:

Hi,

The demo farm is described here:

(see documentation at bottom of screen)

As per the script(demo_build.sh), the demos do a fresh download/install each time they are restarted(and they are fully functional demos). It’s very flexible and can download OpenEMR package from any public git branch also with options to include patient portal(s) and demo datasets.

-brady
OpenEMR

bradymiller wrote on Friday, October 24, 2014:

Also,

To clarify, to have different domain names go to different places on your server is beyond the scope of OpenEMR itself and involves setting up virtual hosts on apache:

From a security perspective, I’d recommend not sharing your OpenEMR production server with your OpenEMR demo server. So, in that case, you’d instead send your two different domain names to two separate IP addresses(ie. two different servers).

-brady

aterad wrote on Sunday, October 26, 2014:

@brady, thanks for your response. I have read through your post and also downloaded the demo_farm_openemr, but i dont know what to do with it. Is the demo_farm the version of the openemr demo that i will upload unto the host or what. Cant really get it. Please help out, thanks.

fsgl wrote on Monday, October 27, 2014:

Is the command-line available on the hosting service? I understand that it’s not with services like GoDaddy & IPage.

If not, then the choice would be to have Brady’s Demo on your own server or to install OpenEMR in the webpage & reset it by manual reinstalls.

bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, October 28, 2014:

Hi Timothy,

It’s rather technical and is just a framework (does not contain the actualt demo) that allows building a bunch of different OpenEMR demos. The demos are basically automatically built from scratch (starting with a blank Ubuntu Virtual Appliance) via a script and they use the standard OpenEMR packages/codebase. Thus, there is nothing special about the demos (they are the same as a standard install), except some of the demos have example data in them.

-brady
OpenEMR

bradymiller wrote on Tuesday, October 28, 2014:

To quickly illustrate here is the flow of a demo:

  1. A Ubuntu Virtual Appliance boots up and downloads the demo_farm_openemr repository.
  2. The demo_build.sh script is then run on the Appliance that downloads/installs OpenEMR.
  3. Note that the ip_map_branch.txt script in the repository is the “brain” and uses the IP address of the Appliance to decide what version of OpenEMR is downloaded/installed along with other settings and test data.

Hope this helps to clarify things.

-brady
OpenEMR

blankev wrote on Tuesday, October 28, 2014:

I use an C-panel Server with backup and restore facility. I my idea it should be possible to use this together with a Cron-job. Please Brady, feel free to correct me If I am wrong.