Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
- Chapter 1 Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector
- Chapter 2 Administering the Web Server Connector
- Chapter 3 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 4 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 5 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 6 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Appendix A Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix B FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Appendix C Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in MacOS X
- Index
Appendix C
Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in Mac OS X
FileMaker Pro Unlimited uses the FileMaker Pro Web Companion
plug-in to serve databases over the Web.
To enable the Web Companion in Mac OS X:
1. Choose the FileMaker Pro application menu > Preferences >
Application.
2. In the Application Preferences dialog, click the Plug-Ins tab.
3. Select the Web Companion checkbox.
After you enable the Web Companion, you must specify which port,
or virtual connection, the Web Companion will use to publish data.
The first time you enable the Web Companion (or if you have
previously enabled the Web Companion and are reinstalling
FileMaker Pro), FileMaker Pro requests permission to make a one-
time change to your computer’s setting to facilitate web publishing
on ports below 1024.
The standard port for web publishing is port number 80 (ports are
numbered between 1 and 65535), and most web servers and browsers
use this port as the default. Port 80 is also the default port for the
FileMaker Pro Web Companion. For security reasons, Mac OS X
restricts access to ports below 1024. To configure the FileMaker Pro
Web Companion to use ports below 1024 while maintaining the Mac
OS X access restrictions on these ports, it is necessary to make a one-
time change to the file permissions of the Web Companion Enabler
to give it the authority to open privileged ports (ports 1-1023). To
make this change, you will need an administrator password, such as
the password created when you first set up Mac OS X.
Note If you use a port other than port number 80 for FileMaker Pro
web publishing, your users will need to append a colon (“:”) and the
number of the port to their URLs to access your web hosted
databases. For more information, see “Accessing databases that are
published to the Web” on page C-3, and the FileMaker Pro Help
topic, “Specifying a port number for web publishing.”
4. If have an administrator password and want to configure the Web
Companion to use standard settings for web publishing
(recommended), click Continue.