Installing OpenEMR on a Mac

[psoas (David Eschelbacher)]

I have been using Mac exclusively, and have been installing openEMR on my macs for the last 2 years.

I have used many ways:

Initial: XAMPP (worse option, outdated, the way to go 15 years ago)

Second: Direct on Mac UNIX using terminal. Downloaded MySQL from website and installed package. Installed php and apache via brew package installer. (much better option)

Third: Docker !!! Went to Docker website to install Docker Desktop Mac. Looked at OpenEMR docker video tutorials. Copied openemr command-line utilities. Used terminal for docker commands. (By far and away, the best, easiest, and most versatile option)

If using Mac, before “openemr-cmd up”, you need to use command:

chmod -R 755 openemr/.git

Please see my thread:

OpenEMR Docker Works on Mac -- But Need Help with .dockerignore

I was able to get the latest dev version of OpenEMR running with Mac Docker Desktop. There were two problems, one mac related, the other not. (1) The docker container created by Easy Development uses the newest version of PHP, which does not work with OpenEMr. I had to change the image in compose.yml from the newest one (openemr-flex) to an older one (openemr-flex-3.18). Easy to fix, but openemr or openemr dev ops needs to be fixed so this does not need to be done. (2) On the mac, the fil…