Web Publishing Installation Guide

24 FileMaker Server Advanced Web Publishing Installation Guide
Setting up authentication for a Windows IIS web site
FileMaker Server handles the authentication for password-protected databases. You can choose whether you
want to also use IIS web site authentication in addition to FileMaker Server authentication.
You must decide whether you want to use IIS web site authentication and take the appropriate steps before
using the Administration Console for the first time to configure the Web Publishing Engine.
You can choose from the following scenarios:
1 Disable IIS authentication. You can disable all IIS authentication methods and use anonymous access to
the IIS site. This is the simplest configuration. See the next section, “Disabling IIS authentication.”
1 Leave IIS authentication enabled and also enable Basic Authentication. You can leave the current IIS
authentication methods enabled for use with other web sites, and use Basic Authentication for the Web
Publishing Engine. You must also set up Windows user accounts that exactly match the user accounts for
the Web Publishing Engine and web-published FileMaker databases. See “Enabling IIS authentication” on
page 25.
For information on IIS, see the IIS online documentation by entering http://localhost/iisHelp in your web
browser.
Disabling IIS authentication
If you disable all IIS authentication methods and use anonymous access to the IIS site, then you don’t need
to add any Windows user accounts.
To disable IIS authentication:
1. In Internet Information Services, select the web site and choose Action menu > Properties.
2. In the Directory Security properties sheet, click Edit for authentication methods.
3. In the Authentications Methods dialog box, do the following:
1 Select Anonymous access.
1 Disable all of the authentication methods under Authenticated access.
4. Click OK to close the Authentications Methods dialog box.
5. Click OK to close the Directory Security properties sheet.