OpenEMR installed but problems with editing

Management and Administration
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technotool wrote on Friday, November 18, 2005:

I have gotten to the congratulatory screen but I could use some help in the editing and creation of   necessary folders under the below described folders.  Is there a walkthrough on this. I am a php novice and I have a bit of fear messing with the globals.php file. much thanks in advance. dr.al (newly converted Linux lover)

Congratulations! OpenEMR is now successfully installed.

    * Please Edit the ‘interface/globals.php’ file now to specify the correct URL paths, and to select a theme.
    * Please make sure that the two folders underneath ‘openemrwebroot/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/’ exist and are writable by the web server. The two subdirectories are ‘compiled’ and ‘cache’.
      Try “chown apache:apache -R openemrwebroot/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/compiled” and “chown apache:apache -R openemrwebroot/interface/main/calendar/modules/PostCalendar/pntemplates/cache”. (If either subdirectory doesn’t exist, create it first then do the chown above).
      The user name and group of apache may differ depending on your distro, i.e. for Debian is www-data and www-data.

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sunsetsystems wrote on Friday, November 18, 2005:

Not to be discouraging, but you really need to learn a few Linux basics if you’re going to tackle OpenEMR yourself.  Check your local bookstore to find something you’re comfortable with.  O’Reilly publishes a lot of good introductory Linux material.

– Rod
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

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drbowen wrote on Monday, November 21, 2005:

I will be helpful if you post your operating system.

There are specific howtos here:

http://www.oemr.org/OpenEMRWiki/InstallOpenEMR

and an FAQ:

http://www.oemr.org/OpenEMRWiki/FAQs

to fix "~cache" and "~compiled" you need to know what user and group that your Apache web server is running under. This is distribution dependent.