Re: How do you actually host a live Orthanc instance?

[Sébastien Jodogne]

Hello,

You have to set the "RemoteAccessAllowed" configuration option to "true":

https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/configuration.html

https://book.orthanc-server.com/faq/troubleshooting.html?highlight=remoteaccessallowed#orthanc-explorer

Regards,

Sébastien-

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 at 12:54, Aware <awar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all
I'm new to Orthanc and I really don't understand this. Our company is trying out Orthanc and has it set up on a virtual machine. We can connect to this machine via azure bastion, and then to Orthanc via localhost (http://127.0.0.1:8042/app/explorer.html).

What I don't understand from having looked online including snooping through the beginners guide (https://www.orthanc-server.com/resources/2015-02-09-emsy-tutorial/index.html) and the REST API documentation (https://book.orthanc-server.com/users/rest.html), is how to host an instance so it can be accessed externally (as in, from outside of the machine on which it's directly installed). I know it's possible because a demo instance exists: https://demo.orthanc-server.com/app/explorer.html but every guide I read simply sets it up as a localhost instance. Replacing localhost with the public IP of the virtual machine just results in a timeout. Is there an assumption that nobody would ever want a live instance? Why is there no guidance for this? It's baffling. Has anyone gotten any of this to work?

Thankyou for your help.

Kind Regards

Alex