Web Publishing Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Before you begin
- Using FileMaker Server documentation
- Customer support
- About the license key
- Hardware and software requirements
- Windows requirements for the Web Publishing Engine
- Mac OS requirements for the Web Publishing Engine
- Windows requirements for FileMaker Site Assistant and FileMaker CDML Converter tools
- Mac OS requirements for FileMaker Site Assistant and FileMaker CDML Converter tools
- Important note about supported operating systems
- About the Web Publishing Engine software components
- About the tools for developing XSLT stylesheets
- Overview of installing, configuring, and using the Web Publishing Engine
- Installing the Web Publishing Engine in various host configurations
- Registering the Web Publishing Engine in FileMaker Server
- Installing plug-ins for the Web Publishing Engine
- Chapter 2 Installing the Web Publishing Engine in Windows
- Chapter 3 Installing the Web Publishing Engine in Mac OS X
- Chapter 4 Configuring the Web Publishing Engine
- About the Web Publishing Engine Administration Console
- General steps for configuring the Web Publishing Engine
- Configuring the Web Publishing Engine for the first time
- Configuring Instant Web Publishing
- Disabling Custom Web Publishing with XML
- Configuring Custom Web Publishing with XSLT
- Setting the Web Publishing Engine mode
- Setting server-side XSLT stylesheet caching
- Configuring the interaction between web sessions and database sessions
- Configuring access to a mail server for the Web Publishing Engine
- Setting the default text encoding for XSLT requests
- Disabling Custom Web Publishing with XSLT
- Specifying general settings for the Web Publishing Engine
- Restricting access to the Administration Console
- Viewing a list of the published databases for FileMaker Server
- Logging out of the Administration Console
- Using the Web Publishing Engine and Administration Console services
- Changing the user name and password for the Administration Console
- Where to go from here
- Index
Before you begin 11
1 Web Publishing Engine: The Web Publishing Engine supports Instant Web Publishing and Custom Web
Publishing with XML and XSLT using databases hosted by FileMaker Server. The Web Publishing Engine
consists of two software components that are always installed together as a unit:
1 Web Publishing Core: This software component communicates with the web server and FileMaker
Server and can generate Instant Web Publishing pages of hosted databases. It can also generate XML
data from databases based on query commands and parameters.
1 Custom Web Publishing Engine: This software component communicates with the web server and
Web Publishing Core. It processes XSLT stylesheets and provides output as HTML, XML, or text to
the web server, which then provides the output to a web user’s browser.
1 FileMaker Server: FileMaker Server is required for hosting the databases you want to publish on the web.
About the tools for developing XSLT stylesheets
FileMaker Server Advanced includes two independent application tools you can use to develop XSLT
stylesheets:
1 FileMaker Site Assistant creates basic XSLT stylesheets as a starting point for use with Custom Web
Publishing with XSLT.
1 FileMaker CDML Converter converts existing CDML format files to XSLT stylesheets that are compatible
with the Web Publishing Engine.
Web Server
Web Server Module
Administration Console
FileMaker Server
FileMaker Server
Web Publishing Engine
Web Publishing Core
Custom Web Publishing
Engine (CWPE)
Web
Browser
Overview of Web Publishing Engine software components
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