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  27 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=5 STYLE="font-size: 16pt">Installing
  28 OpenEMR on a Windows 2003 server</FONT></FONT></P>
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  33 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>This document describes
  34 how to obtain and install OpenEMR on Windows platforms.</FONT></FONT></P>
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  39 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4><B>Installation using
  40 XAMPP</B></FONT></FONT></P>
  41 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
  42 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Choose which
  43 distribution to install.</B></FONT></FONT></P>
  44 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
  45 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>We recommend installing a
  46 stable production release. For our project, it was
  47 the XAMPP 1.4.11 version, which is free of charge.</FONT></FONT></P>
  48 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
  49 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Download the
  50 distribution you want to install. </B></FONT></FONT>
  51 </P>
  52 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
  53 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>We downloaded the XAMPP
  54 1.4.11 installer, xampp-win32-1.4.11-installer.exe, from the Apache
  55 Friends organization's Web site, http://www.apachefriends.org,
  56 because it's easy and safe.</FONT></FONT></P>
  57 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
  58 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Install the
  59 distribution.</B></FONT></FONT></P>
  60 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
  61 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Installation of XAMPP is
  62 very easy. Just unpack the package on the partition of your choice.
  63 We chose the default, creating the main directory in
  64 C:\apachefriends\xampp.</FONT></FONT></P>
  65 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
  66 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Perform
  67 post-installation setup.</B></FONT></FONT></P>
  68 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
  69 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>To start XAMPP, choose
  70 the &quot;xampp basic start&quot; program from the start menu (start
  71 menu-&gt;apachefieends-&gt;xampp). </FONT></FONT>
  72 </P>
  73 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
  74 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Although MySQL starts
  75 without a password for &quot;root,&quot; you can add a root password,
  76 if you wish. To do so, use &quot;mysqladmin&quot; under the console
  77 or use the &quot;phpMyAdmin&quot; graphics program found on the XAMPP
  78 tools menu. </FONT></FONT>
  79 </P>
  80 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
  81 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Change the XAMPP switch
  82 from PHP 5 to the PHP 4.3.10 version by using the &quot;php switch&quot;
  83 program from the start menu (startmenu-&gt;apachefriends-&gt;php
  84 switch).<BR></FONT></FONT><BR>
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  86 <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
  87 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4><B>Installation of
  88 OpenEMR</B></FONT></FONT></P>
  89 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
  90 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Choose which
  91 distribution to install.</B></FONT></FONT></P>
  92 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
  93 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>We recommend installing a
  94 stable production release. For our project with
  95 Windows, it was the OpenEMR 2.6.5 version, which is also free of
  96 charge. </FONT></FONT>
  97 </P>
  98 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
  99 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Download the
 100 distribution you want to install.</B></FONT></FONT></P>
 101 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 102 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>We downloaded the
 103 openemr-ea-2.5.3PF.tgz version from the OpenEMR Web site,
 104 http://openemr.net.</FONT></FONT></P>
 105 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
 106 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Install the
 107 distribution.</B></FONT></FONT></P>
 108 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 109 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>For installation, we used
 110 the following Pennington Firm &quot;OpenEMR Windows installation&quot;
 111 document:<BR></FONT></FONT><BR>
 112 </P>
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 114         <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 115         <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>As an administrator,
 116         extract using WinZip the openemr archive copy and move the openemr
 117         folder into C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs.</FONT></FONT></P>
 118         <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 119         <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Use WordPad to open
 120         globals.php file, which is in
 121         C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs\openemr\interface. </FONT></FONT>
 122         </P>
 123         <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">Change
 124         $webserver_root =&quot;/var/www/openemr&quot;; to $webserver_root
 125         </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>=&quot;C: /apachefriends/xampp/htdocs/openemr&quot;.</FONT></FONT></P>
 126         <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Start
 127         Web browser and type in http: //localhost/openemr/setup.php. </FONT></FONT>
 128         </P>
 129         <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 130         <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>Click &quot;Continue&quot;
 131         button.</FONT></FONT></P>
 132         <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 133         <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>For the first step,
 134         choose &quot;Have setup create the databases&quot; and click
 135         &quot;Continue.&quot;</FONT></FONT></P>
 136         <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 137         <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3>For the next step, choose
 138         the following entries:</FONT></FONT></P>
 139         <OL>
 140                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 141                 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>mysql root password –
 142                 for password that you choose early;</FONT></FONT></P>
 143                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 144                 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>openemr password –
 145                 use something simple like &quot;openemr1&quot;;</FONT></FONT></P>
 146                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 147                 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>database name – for
 148                 example, use &quot;openemr&quot;;</FONT></FONT></P>
 149                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 150                 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>change default clinic
 151                 name to the name of your clinic – for example, use “clinic”</FONT></FONT></P>
 152                 <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; text-decoration: none">
 153                 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=2>Click “Continue”
 154                 and soon you will be see the message, &quot;Congratuations...&quot;</FONT></FONT></P>
 155         </OL>
 156 </OL>
 157 <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none">
 158 <FONT FACE="Arial, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=3><B>Perform
 159 post-installation setup. </B></FONT></FONT>
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