# Set Up Questions - Revisited

**URL:** <https://community.open-emr.org/t/set-up-questions-revisited/1946>\
**Category:** Management and Administration\
**Created:** [February 9, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/set-up-questions-revisited/1946 "2008-02-09T18:53:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse-uploads-openemr.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/b/bb9e4e8ae2ea7faac2e952fd9e38a3ce03aac403.png) [@system](https://community.open-emr.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/set-up-questions-revisited/1946/1 "2008-02-09T18:53:07Z")

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**[mike-h30](https://sourceforge.net/u/mike-h30/)** wrote on [Saturday, February 09, 2008](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202505/thread/c9d78180/#b9a3):

I was double checking some of the setup documentation and I have some questions regarding the steps below.

OpenEMR requires a number of webserver and PHP features which may not be  
enabled on your system.&nbsp; These include:

- PHP Index support (ensure that index.php is in your Index path in httpd.conf)  
- Session variables  
- PHP libcurl support (optional for operation, mandatory for billing

1.)&nbsp; I did not see a file named "index.php" anywhere in my httpd.conf file.&nbsp; Here is the the closest match that I could find:

# List of resources to look for when the client requests a directory  
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

2. ) How do I verify "Session Variables" as mentioned above?

3.)&nbsp; How do I know that I have "PHP libcure support"?

Thanks

-MIke

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**Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/set-up-questions-revisited/1946/2 "2008-02-09T20:09:07Z")

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**[andres\_paglayan](https://sourceforge.net/u/andres_paglayan/)** wrote on [Saturday, February 09, 2008](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202505/thread/c9d78180/#b9a3/b78a):

1.)&nbsp; I did not see a file named "index.php" anywhere in my httpd.conf file.  
Here is the the closest match that I could find:

\> you won’t, this is to tell your web server, (Apache?)  
to treat index.php files as ‘index’ files, meaning it will look for a file named ‘index.php’  
at the

# List of resources to look for when the client requests a directory  
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var

2. ) How do I verify "Session Variables" as mentioned above?

\>look for php.ini  
$\> updatedb  
$\> locate php.ini

3.)&nbsp; How do I know that I have "PHP libcure support"?

\>libcurl you meant,  
search your repository for PHP libraries and install the one that says both php and curl  
I don’t know what distro you use  
if debian/ubuntu something like $\> apt-cache search php | grep lib

Thanks

-MIke

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**Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/set-up-questions-revisited/1946/3 "2008-02-09T20:12:01Z")

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**[andres\_paglayan](https://sourceforge.net/u/andres_paglayan/)** wrote on [Saturday, February 09, 2008](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202505/thread/c9d78180/#b9a3/84c6):

ps.  
you need to add index.php at the  
DirectoryIndex  
line,  
preferably the first option

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**Post date:** [February 9, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.open-emr.org/t/set-up-questions-revisited/1946/4 "2008-02-09T21:03:48Z")

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**[mike-h30](https://sourceforge.net/u/mike-h30/)** wrote on [Saturday, February 09, 2008](https://sourceforge.net/p/openemr/discussion/202505/thread/c9d78180/#b9a3/b5bf):

Thanks Andres!