Web Publishing Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- About this guide
- Hardware and software requirements
- Windows requirements for the Web Publishing Engine
- Windows requirements for FileMaker Site Assistant and FileMaker CDML Converter tools
- Mac OS requirements for the Web Publishing Engine
- Mac OS requirements for FileMaker Site Assistant and FileMaker CDML Converter tools
- Important note about supported operating systems
- About the license key
- Customer support
- Overview of installing, configuring, and using the Web Publishing Engine
- Chapter 2 Installation quick start
- Chapter 3 Migrating web publishing settings from the previous version
- Chapter 4 Installing the Web Publishing Engine in various host configurations
- Chapter 5 Installing the Web Publishing Engine in Windows
- Chapter 6 Installing the Web Publishing Engine in Mac OS
- Chapter 7 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
- Viewing an overview of the Web Publishing Engine configuration
- 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
Installation quick start
Chapter 2
Installation quick start
This quick start explains how to install FileMaker Server Advanced web publishing components in the simplest
configuration—the single machine configuration—where all components are installed on a single machine. The
single machine may be either a Windows server running Internet Information Services (IIS) or a machine running
Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server.
For information on other machine configurations, see chapter 4, “Installing the Web Publishing Engine in various
host configurations.”
About web publishing components
Web publishing with FileMaker Server Advanced uses the following components:
1 Web server. FileMaker Server Advanced requires Internet Information Services (IIS) on Windows or an
Apache web server on Mac OS. For Windows, install IIS before installing the Web Server Module and the
Administration Console. For Mac OS, the Apache web server is installed as part of the operating system, but
you need to enable web sharing.
1 Web Server Module and Administration Console. These two software components are installed together on
the web server host computer. The Web Server Module enables the Web Publishing Engine to connect to the
web server. The Administration Console runs in a web browser, and you use it to configure the Web Publishing
Engine via the connection through the web server.
1 Web Publishing Engine. The Web Publishing Engine provides Instant Web Publishing and Custom Web
Publishing services for databases hosted by FileMaker Server.
1 FileMaker Server. FileMaker Server hosts the databases that you publish on the web.
Note “FileMaker Server Advanced” refers to the complete product that includes FileMaker Server, the Web
Publishing Engine, and the Web Server Module/Administration Console unit. (FileMaker Server Advanced also
contains other components, like ODBC and JDBC drivers, that are not specific to web publishing.)
Web Server
Web Server Module
Administration Console
FileMaker Server
Web Publishing Engine
Web Publishing Core
Custom Web Publishing
Engine (CWPE)
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