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
Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector 1-3
In this configuration, you use a dedicated copy of FileMaker Pro or
FileMaker Pro Unlimited as the backend host for the databases and
use peer-to-peer networking for each of the FileMaker Pro Unlimited
guests. (If you use FileMaker Pro Unlimited as the backend host,
then you can also use the same machine as a node in the RAIC for
the Web Server Connector.)
When you set up FileMaker Pro Unlimited on each RAIC machine,
you use the network to open the databases and then share each
database via the Web. (See “Sharing the database via the Web” on
page 3-5 for information.)
Security considerations when using a RAIC
To ensure proper authentication, make sure all nodes of the RAIC
have consistent security. For example, you may experience
unexpected behavior if you enable security on one machine but not
on other machines in the RAIC, or if your FileMaker Pro passwords
are different across the nodes of the RAIC.
Where to place database and HTML files
When publishing your FileMaker Pro databases on the Web, place
the database files on the host machine running FileMaker Pro
Unlimited, FileMaker Server, or FileMaker Pro. Store all your
custom web pages that reference the databases in the Web folder
inside the FileMaker Pro 5.5 folder. Static HTML and other files
(such as image files) should reside on the web server machine, as
specified by the web server software. For more information, see
“Requirements for web access” on page 3-3.
Requirements for the Web Server
Connector
To use the Web Server Connector, you need the following equipment
and software.
Requirements on Windows machines
To use the Web Server Connector on Windows systems, you need:
1 a hard disk with at least 10MB of free space
1 a CD or DVD drive
1 Windows 2000 Server
1 Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0
Requirements on Mac OS X Server machines
To use the Web Server Connector on Mac OS X Server you need:
1 hard disk with at least 1 MB of free space
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