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
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5. Restart your server.
Note The Uninstall command removes all files that have been installed,
but does not remove any files generated by the Web Server Connector.
Examples of files not removed include .PROPERTIES files, .LOG files,
and ISAPI filter entries, which must all be removed manually.
To remove the ISAPI filter entry:
1. Start the Internet Service Manager application.
2. Right-click on the Internet Information Server icon and choose
Properties from the context menu.
3. From the Master Properties menu, select WWW Service, and click Edit.
4. Click the ISAPI Filters tab.
5. Select fmwsc_isapi and click Remove.
6. Click OK, then click OK again.
7. Restart Internet Information Server to reload your remaining filters.
Installing on Mac OS X Server
Note Before you begin the installation process, save your work, quit any
open programs, and turn off virus protection utilities. Remember to turn
on virus protection utilities again when the installation is complete.
To install the Web Server Connector on Mac OS X Server:
1. If you are not logged in as root, log out and log in as root.
2. Insert the FMWSC and Tools CD into your CD or DVD drive.
3. Double-click the file named FileMaker WSC 5.5 Installer.
4. Read the license agreement. If you agree to these terms, click
Accept.
You see the Web Server Connector Installer dialog box.
It is recommended that you install the Web Server Connector in the
default installation location.
5. Click Install.
6. Click Quit to leave the Installer when the installation is finished.
7. Log out and log in as the user used to administer the machine.
Starting the Web Server Connector
To automatically start up the Web Server Connector, double-click
the file named StartFMWSC.command located in the
FileMaker_WSC_5.5 folder in the Applications folder.
A terminal window opens telling you that the Web Server Connector
is running.
Note If you close the terminal window, the Web Server Connector
will stop.
To manually start the Web Server Connector, open a terminal
window and enter:
# cd /applications/FileMaker_WSC_5.5
# bin/FMWSC_Apache.sh . &
To stop the Web Server Connector, you must kill the
FMWSC_Apache process.
Where files are installed
The files for the Web Server Connector are installed the
FileMaker_WSC_5.5 folder:
Contents of the
FileMaker_WSC_5.5 folder Description
FMWSC.log The Web Server Connector log file (does not
appear until the Web Server Connector is first
run)
Start_FMWSC.command Shell script for starting the Web Server
Connector