Installation on multiple computers?

Management and Administration
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noraft wrote on Thursday, July 08, 2010:

Hi, I’ve installed OpenEMR on my laptop to check it out, and I like it…so now I’d like to install it in a small clinic, maybe three or four computers. I have two questions:

1) When doing multiple installations, how do the individual installations find the database over the network? How do I designate where the database is? Is it just located wherever the first installation is done?

2) If I create or modify some forms on one installation, is that carried through to all of them (i.e. are the form layouts stored in the database?)

Thanks for your time!

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stephen-smith wrote on Thursday, July 08, 2010:

You do one installation on a server, or always-on workstation.  All computers then use a web browser to access that single installation.

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noraft wrote on Thursday, July 08, 2010:

Gotcha. Thank you very much. Is the internal IP set automatically, or is there a place in the software that I need to designate it?

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aperezcrespo wrote on Thursday, July 08, 2010:

Hi
  No just use the IP of the PC you installed it on.  Start->run->cmd for a DOS BOX.  Once there do an IPCONFIG and there is your IP.  From the other workstations just point your browser to that IP.

Have Fun.

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stephen-smith wrote on Thursday, July 08, 2010:

Apache actually handles the TCP/IP, so the IP you use the access an OpenEMR instance is based on the Apache configuration(s) (!) in front of it.

Default Apache configuration is to listen to all IPs, so any IP assigned to the machine you installed on and accessible to the client you are accessing from should work.

I strongly recommend using domain name(s) instead of IPs.

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noraft wrote on Thursday, July 08, 2010:

Thanks, all.