Hello
I downloaded the latest dev-tip from github containing the zend module installer. After installing it and running openemr, i found out certain issues:
Zend module installer must have brought up some databse changes, so I went to http://localhost/openemr/admin.php. But it showed no databse upgrade. that was strange, so i logged in and everythig was screwed up. Did the database upgrade from the old script method - http://localhost/openemr/sql_upgrade.php and then the updates were ready. My question is…why the admin.php page didnt show the necessary upgrade thing?
After logging in I found out a new section called modules under left nav. clicking on that gave me a new option of managing modules…click on that gave me nothing…it was a white page of death. Why??
Error log: showing something fatal
[Mon Jun 30 23:53:36 2014] [error] [client 192.168.50.1] PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\library\classes\TreeMenu.php on line 179
[Mon Jun 30 23:53:36 2014] [error] [client 192.168.50.1] PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\library\classes\TreeMenu.php on line 211
[Mon Jun 30 23:53:36 2014] [error] [client 192.168.50.1] PHP Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\library\classes\TreeMenu.php on line 268
[Mon Jun 30 23:53:51 2014] [error] [client ::1] PHP Fatal error: Constructor Zend\Stdlib\Glob::glob() cannot be static in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\interface\modules\zend_modules\library\Zend\Stdlib\Glob.php on line 205, referer: http://localhost/openemr/interface/main/left_nav.php
Placed a commit to fix the admin.php issue (forgot to increment the database flag in the version.php file).
The other issue (ie. white screen of death), is because you need to configure apache to work with zend. We’ll need to figure out instruction sets for all OS’s. The online zend framework instructions for xampp really overdo things. The goal in all OS’s to get the following working:
This is the copy paste version of above and below line 200:
DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
DocumentRoot “/xampp/htdocs”
Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
directory (and its subdirectories).
First, we configure the “default” to be a very restrictive set of
features.
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Note that from this point forward you must specifically allow
particular features to be enabled - so if something’s not working as
you might expect, make sure that you have specifically enabled it
below.
This is the copy paste version of above and below line 355:
#
# ScriptSock: On threaded servers, designate the path to the UNIX
# socket used to communicate with the CGI daemon of mod_cgid.
#
#Scriptsock "logs/cgi.sock"
“/xampp/cgi-bin” should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased
CGI directory exists, if you have that configured.
<Directory “/xampp/cgi-bin”>
AllowOverride All
Options All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
DefaultType: the default MIME type the server will use for a document
if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, “text/plain” is
a good value. If most of your content is binary, such as applications
or images, you may want to use “application/octet-stream” instead to
keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
Although that will be the correct configuration, I am confident it will not work for you. Since you are using a php version less than 5.3.3 (xampp 1.7.3 uses php 5.3.1). You need to migrate to the newer xampp/openemr package.
one issue is…i have a drupal site running on this xampp…and i have seen earlier that if i migrate or change my xampp version, the drupal site doesnt seem to work even after back up…
In this situation I may advise to consider Mint 17, however we would then lose OpenEMR’s main Windows tester. So, don’t do that
Suggest setting up a testing machine(or virtual machine) to try to get both to work on the xampp provided in most recent windows xampp/openemr package.
Will Arnab have difficulties with the relocation of the openemr web directory in LM 17? Because this will be a test copy, would it not be less troublesome to use LM 16 instead? Is the relocation circumvented with the use of LAMPP?
Arnab,
We can promote you to be the Chief Windows and Linux Tester.
Double the fun. (I sound like an old chewing gum advertisement. If the reader remembers the reference, he is dating himself.)
