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 1-7
Installing on Red Hat Linux
You can use the terminal window or a pseudo terminal (pts) to install
the FileMaker Web Server Connector.
Important You must be logged in as the root user during installation
and when making changes to the Web Server Connector
configuration file. Logging in as root gives you complete access to
all system resources. Be careful when working as the root user. You
could accidentally issue a command that could detrimentally affect
your operating system software.
To install the FileMaker Web Server Connector:
1. Insert the FMWSC and Tools CD into your CD or DVD drive.
2. Switch to the root user by entering the following command at the
shell prompt:
$ su -l root
For information about accessing the shell prompt, see your operating
system documentation.
3. Enter the root password.
The prompt changes to #, indicating that you are now logged in as
the root user.
4. If the installation CD does not mount automatically, enter:
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
5. Change to the CD directory by entering:
# cd /mnt/cdrom
6. Change to the Linux directory by entering:
# cd linux
7. Enter the following command to install the Web Server Connector
files on your hard disk:
# rpm -ivh fmwsc-5.5-1.i386.rpm
Starting the Web Server Connector
1. To start up the Web Server Connector, enter the following:
# cd /var/fmwsc/bin
# ./fmwsc_apache.sh
path to the www root directory
2. Log out as the root user by entering:
# exit
Where files are installed
Contents of the bin folder Description
FMWSC_Apache.sh Shell script
FMWSC.log The Web Server Connector log file (does not
appear until the Web Server Connector is first
run)
FMWSC.properties The Web Server Connector properties file
(does not appear until the Web Server
Connector is first run)
Contents of the lib folder Description
FMWSC_Apache.jar Apache file for servlet engine
FMWSC.jar The FileMaker Web Server Connector servlet
FMWSCResouces.jar Strings and supporting HTML pages for WSC
servlet
servlet.jar The servlet API
File Description
/var/fmwsc/README The FileMaker, Inc. Read Me file
/var/fmwsc/fmwsc/FMWSC.log The Web Server Connector log file
(does not appear until the Web Server
Connector is first run)
/var/fmwsc/bin/FMWSC_Apache.sh Shell script
/var/fmwsc/install/mod_fmwsc.so Shared object used by Apache