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 1-5
The Web Server Connector automatically starts after you restart your
computer. For information on configuring the Web Server
Connector with FileMaker Pro Unlimited, see chapter 2,
“Administering the Web Server Connector.”
Setting up user names and passwords
Before you can configure the Web Server Connector with FileMaker
Pro Unlimited, you must enable the Basic (Clear Text) Password
Authentication option in Microsoft Internet Information Server. For
instructions on this procedure, see the documentation included with
your software.
When using the FileMaker Web Server Connector on Microsoft
Internet Information Server, you use a valid user name and password
for Windows 2000. Microsoft Internet Information Server instructs
Windows 2000 to authenticate the user name and password before
passing them on to FileMaker Pro. Do not use high ASCII characters
in user names on Windows NT, because these may cause
authentication failures.
If you use the FileMaker Pro Web Security Database to control user
name and password access, you must establish Windows 2000
accounts with these same user names and passwords. Microsoft
Internet Information Server authenticates these names and passwords
before passing them on to FileMaker Pro. (For information on using
the Web Security Database, see the Web Security.pdf document in the
Web Security folder in the FileMaker Pro 5.5 Folder.)
The same user name and password requirements apply when using
FileMaker Pro access privileges.
Where files are installed
The files for the Web Server Connector are installed in two main
locations: in the FileMaker program folder in a folder named
FileMaker WSC 5.5 and in the Scripts folder inside the Inetpub folder:
Uninstalling the Web Server Connector
To uninstall the Web Server Connector from your Windows
machine:
1. Stop Microsoft Internet Information Server services.
2. Open the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
3. In the Install/Uninstall tab, select FileMaker WSC 5 from the list.
4. Click Add/Remove.
Contents of the
FileMaker WSC 5.5 folder Description
FileMaker WSC Admin URL link file
FMWSC.log The Web Server Connector log file
JSDK License.txt Java Servlet Development Kit license
License.txt FileMaker, Inc. license
FMWSCNative.log The Web Server Connector log file
ReadMe.txt FileMaker, Inc. Read Me file
Contents of the
jre > bin > Security folder Description
Java.security Java runtime environment security file
Contents of the lib folder Description
FMWSC.jar The FileMaker Web Server Connector
servlet
FMWSCResources.jar Strings and supporting HTML pages for
WSC servlet
Servlet.jar The servlet API
Contents of the
Inetpub > Scripts folder Description
FMWSC_NSAPI.dll Plug-in API