Web Publishing Installation Guide

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8. Set up a web publishing solution for the database by doing any of the following:

1 Enable Instant Web Publishing for the database. See the FileMaker Instant Web Publishing Guide.

1 Create a custom web site or application to query the database for XML data via a query string in a URL.

See the FileMaker Server Advanced Custom Web Publishing Guide.

1 Create a custom web site or application to query the database via XSLT stylesheets. You can create

XSLT stylesheets by using the CDML Converter to convert existing CDML format files and then

enhancing the converted stylesheets, or by creating new XSLT stylesheets. See the FileMaker Server

Advanced Custom Web Publishing Guide.

Installing the Web Publishing Engine in various host configurations

You can install the Web Publishing Engine and its associated software components in the following

configurations of one, two, or three host computers. The operating systems of the various computers can be

all Windows, all Mac

OS X, or any combination of the two. Make sure the ports indicated in the following

diagrams are available on each computer (not used by another process), and are not blocked by a firewall.

1 One computer configuration: You can install FileMaker Server, the Web Publishing Engine, and all of

the associated software components on the same computer. This is the simplest configuration.

FileMaker Server

Web Publishing Engine

Web Publishing Core

Custom Web Publishing

Engine (CWPE)

Web Server

Web Server Module

Administration Console

Ports 5003 and 16008 through 16018 must be available on this computer. Port 5003 must also be

open if there is an internal software firewall on the computer.

One computer configuration