Sharing my "localhost" installation of OpenEMR with other computers in my office

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sleepy-john wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Hi,
I’m new to openemr and conducting some testing of it to see if it’ll meet our needs. I would like the ability to open the application from different work stations within my office enviroment. I’m not sure how to share it? The default login now is http://localhost/openemr
I’ve disabled FileZilla and Mercury within the XAMPP control panel since we are not intending to use this outside of our office - I want to keep it on our intranet - not on the internet.

Any advise would be welcomed and appreciated.

Thanks

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blankev wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

If you are all situated in the same building the easiest would be to use INTRANET.

The only thing you need is a compatible browser and some fine tuning. (Server like situation)

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yehster wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Determine your computer’s IP Address
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-computers-ip-address#1TC=windows-7

and use the 192.x.x.x or 10.x.x.x that you likely find instead of localhost.

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tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Inside your own network, ‘localhost’ will have an IP address that can be accessed. If you use DHCP it will likely be something like 192.168.1.###.

Find out what the IP address of the server XAMPP is running on and access openemr that way.

ie: http://192.168.1.xxx/openemr/

–Tony

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tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Kevin and I think alike :slight_smile: (at the same time) …

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sleepy-john wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Thank you gentlemen for the excellent advice.

I found the IP and typed in the following into my IE8 browser’s address bar:
http://192.168.0.32/openemr
and it’s not loading. The page will not display. Any ideas?
Thanks

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fsgl wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Here is an article about finding the name of your main computer, where OpenEMR has been installed.

With the main computer and the router turned on, login into “main computer name”/openemr from the auxiliary device.

The cable which provides the Internet service can be disconnected from the router.

Use Firefox because it does not work with Internet Explorer. When IE8 was used on my desktop, the login page would not appear (because the Internet connection was turned off), despite the fact that a wireless connection had been established to my laptop wherein OpenEMR resides.

An alternative would be a home network (small office network) setup. It’s far easier to use the method suggested by Kevin and Tony, but a home network connection is not that difficult either. The following video is for Windows 7.

[[embed url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GGtBuBIjk]]

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tmccormi wrote on Tuesday, January 28, 2014:

Does “Not Loading” have a specific error message? Time out, 404, 500 error
something like that? Can you get to
http://192.168.0.32http://192.168.0.32/openemr/
?

Tony McCormick, CTO
Medical Information Integration, LLC

Direct: 713-574-6709, cell 503-330-2239
Office: 866-735-0897
@MI2_OpenEMR

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:36 PM, fsgl fsgl@users.sf.net wrote:

Here is an articlehttp://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/setting-home-network#1TC=windows-7about setting up a home or small office network.

After the network has been setup, with the main computer and the router
turned on; try logging in using localhost/openemr with an auxiliary device.

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fsgl wrote on Wednesday, January 29, 2014:

Out of curiosity I turned off the OpenEMR device and entered its URL on the other machine and got the following on Firefox. Same error when John’s link was clicked.
.

Only inference is that John’s machine was offline. Not clear if IP address is correct.

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blankev wrote on Wednesday, January 29, 2014:

Dear fsgl,

the address 192.168.xx.xx is the connection between the computer of John A. If you want to login in his computer you need to have his Router/IP address of his connection to the Internet.

This is the difference between Intranet and Internet.Intranet is the connection “in house” with wired or cabled connections with the Router or one or more Hubs.