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
2-2 FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited Administrator’s Guide
http://localhost/FMPro?config
For information on using localhost without a network connection,
see “Testing your site without a network connection” on page 3-18.
Note On Windows 2000, you can also start the Web Server
Connector by choosing Start > Programs > FileMaker WSC - IIS >
FileMaker WSC Admin.
3. On the Initial Security page, enter a user name and password in the
text boxes.
Use the same user name and password as the administrator’s user
name and password set up for your web server’s operating system.
The user name and password must not contain high ASCII
characters. On Windows NT, you enter only a valid user account
name.
Note To log in and administer the Web Server Connector you must
have cookies enabled.
4. If you make a mistake, you can click Clear Fields and then reenter
the user name and password.
5. Click Submit.
The FileMaker Web Server Connector configuration page appears.
Important For security purposes, you should quit the web browser
when you are done administering the Web Server Connector.
Resetting the administrator account
If you forget or lose your Web Server Connector administrator
password, you can reset it by deleting the fmwsc.properties file and
restarting the Web Server Connector. This file is re-created the next
time the Web Server Connector is launched.
The fmwsc.properties file is located as follows:
Note On Windows 2000 and Mac OS X Server you must restart the
computer to recreate the removed Properties file.
Configuring the Web Server Connector by
host machine or by database
You can configure the FileMaker Web Server Connector to send
database requests to each FileMaker Pro Unlimited host or database
in a list. You can change the configuration at any time by accessing
the FileMaker Web Server Connector configuration page.
Accessing the Web Server Connector
configuration pages
You can access FileMaker Web Server Connector configuration
page by entering one of the following requests in your web browser:
http://IP address/FMPro?config
FileMaker Web Server Connector configuration page
Web server Log file location
Internet Information Server c:/program files/filemaker/filemaker wsc 5.5/
lib/ fmwsc.properties
Apache on Mac OS X Server Applications/FileMaker_WSC_5.5/lib/
FMWSC.properties
Apache on Linux /var/fmwsc/lib/FMWSC.properties