Moving to new system

cyberandroid wrote on Thursday, May 10, 2007:

Hello, been testing and demoing OpenEMR on a Windows XP machine using Xampp.  Would like to move the EMR to a new server computer.  Can I simply just copy the openemr folder to the new system??? 

Thanks for any comments or suggestions?

drbowen wrote on Saturday, May 12, 2007:

Is the new system a Windows system as well?

Do you want to move the data that you have demoing with?

You can definitely "just copy the folder".  But there a few caveats.  This will not move any data since the data is contained in the MySQL database.  You will need to execute a mysql dump and then restore the data on the new server. Assuming that you really want to keep the data.  Since this is for demo purposes it is likely easier just to rebuild data.

Once you move the OpenEMR folder you need to change the path to the new real path for the new server (in the config.php file).

Which version of OpenEMR are you using for the demo?  Of course this move is also an excellent oportunity to upgrade to the most recent CVS version which has already had a lot of upgrades since 2.82. For instance the new NPI numbers.

cyberandroid wrote on Sunday, May 13, 2007:

Thanks for the reply Sam.

I would prefer the keep the patient data as I would have to type it all in again.  I’m still debating whether to make the new server Linux or Windows based.  I would prefer a Linux setup but my knowledge is more limited.

I was using version 2.82.  How would I go about upgrading to the newer CVS version?  Since my current setup is under Windows would I have problems moving the data to a Linux system?

Tbanks in advance for all comments.