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
Administering the Web Server Connector 2-5
If the host machine is the same as the web server machine, this port
number must be different than Port 80, which is reserved for web
servers.
6. Click Submit.
7. Repeat steps 2 through 6 for each database and host machine you
want to add to the configuration.
To remove a database from the list:
1. Click Configure by Database on the FileMaker Web Server
Connector configuration page or in the navigation bar of any page.
2. Locate the database you want to remove.
3. Select the Remove checkbox next to the database name.
4. Click Remove.
Using the Web Server Connector log files
The Web Server Connector and the Web Companion each generate
log files that are useful for troubleshooting purposes. The Web
Server Connector log files can help you diagnose problems with the
Web Server Connector on your web server, and the Web Companion
log files can help you isolate problems on individual database host
machines.
The Web Server Connector generates two log files: FMWSC.log and
FMWSCNative.log. These files list the date and time of each server
start and close event, as well as all errors reported by the servlet
engine and the relay servlet.
For information about the log files generated by the Web
Companion, see “Web Companion support for Internet media types”
on page 3-13.
The Web Server Connector log files are located on the following web
servers:
Accessing hosted databases
After the databases are hosted by FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited, and
the Web Server Connector is installed and configured, you are ready
to access your FileMaker Pro databases over the Internet or intranet.
Connecting to FileMaker Pro custom web pages
You can use your web browser to view the HTML page or index
page of the databases you want to access:
http://web server IP address or domain name/
mysolution.htm
Use the format 123.456.789.123/mysolution.htm or
www.yourdomainname.com/mysolution.htm for web server IP
address or domain name/mysolution.htm.
For more information see “Creating a custom home page” on
page 3-5.
Connecting to FileMaker Pro instant web pages
Note Instant Web Publishing is not supported under the Web Server
Connector in FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited.
Web server Log file location
Internet Information Server c:/program files/filemaker/filemaker wsc 5.5/
FMWSC.log
c:/program files/filemaker/filemaker wsc 5.5/
FMWSCNative.log
Apache on Mac OS X Server Applications/FileMaker_WSC_5.5/
FMWSC.log
Apache on Linux /var/fmwsc/FMWSC.log