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14-8 FileMaker Pro User’s Guide
Enabling Instant Web Publishing
Choosing a home page for web publishing
When web users specify the IP address (or host and domain name) of
your host computer in a browser, they see your database home page.
See “How users work with databases on the Web” on page 14-3.
If you created a custom home page, you can set an option to display
it instead of the Web Companion built-in home page. See “Creating
a custom home page” on page 14-6.
In the Web Companion Configuration dialog box, choose a home
page from the Home Page list.
Choosing a language for Instant Web Publishing
You can choose a language for the FileMaker Pro Instant Web
Publishing interface and the Instant Web Publishing onscreen Help.
This option has no effect on your data.
To specify the language for the FileMaker Pro Instant Web
Publishing interface, choose a language from the Language list in the
Web Companion Configuration dialog box.
Tracking web activity in log files
To track the activity your databases receive from web users, enable
one or more of the following options in the Web Companion
Configuration dialog box.
The Web Companion creates log files in the FileMaker Pro 5 folder.
You can view them in any application that opens text files.For more
information, see FileMaker Pro Help. Choose Help menu > Contents
and Index, click the Index tab, and type log of Web activity.
Tip You can also use FileMaker Pro Web Companion external
functions to track user activity. The external functions are
documented in Help. Choose Help menu > Contents and Index, click
the Index tab, and type external functions.
Enabling remote administration for web publishing
If you enable remote administration, you can perform the following
tasks on a computer other than the computer hosting your published
databases:
1 open or close databases, using features available with FileMaker
Developer software
To Do this
Publish databases Be sure Enable Instant Web Publishing is selected in the
Web Companion Configuration dialog box.
Stop publishing all
databases
Clear Enable Instant Web Publishing.
Stop publishing
one database
Disable Web Companion Sharing in that database. See
“Enabling Web Companion sharing” on page 14-10.
Select To track In this file
Access log file Information about web users who access your
database (for example, the users’ IP addresses
and pages accessed)
access.log
Error log file Errors generated by the Web Companion error.log
Information log file Entries made with FMP-Log replacement tags
in custom web publishing files.
You can create custom files using FileMaker
Developer software. For more information,
see the documentation that comes with
FileMaker Developer.
info.log