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
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Installation quick start
Setting up the web server
Before installing web publishing components, ensure that the web server is properly configured. For more
information on configuring a Windows IIS or a Mac OS Apache web server, refer to the web server’s
documentation for information on how to host a website on your server.
After you have ensured that the web server is running, use the following settings with FileMaker Server Advanced.
Windows IIS settings
By default, Windows IIS directory security attempts to authenticate all requests that are made via the IIS web
server. The simplest approach for making IIS work with the Web Publishing Engine is to disable IIS
Authentication.
To disable IIS Authentication:
1. Choose the Start button > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to open
the Internet Information Services Manager.
2. From Web Sites, select the default website and choose Action menu > Properties.
3. On the Directory Security properties page:
1 For Windows 2000 Server, click Edit for Authentication Methods.
1 For Windows 2003 Server, click Edit for Authentication and access control.
4. In the Authentication dialog box, do the following:
1 Ensure that Anonymous Access is enabled.
1 For Authenticated access, disable all of the authentication methods.
For more information about working with IIS directory security, see “Setting up authentication for a Windows IIS
web site” on page 42.
Mac OS settings
Mac OS X Server with Web Server Module installed: Disable the Performance Cache option for the Apache
web server. The performance cache may interfere with FileMaker Server Advanced and data may not refresh
correctly.
To disable the performance cache on Mac OS X Server:
1. In the Mac OS X Server Admin, click Web in the list for the desired server.
2. Click Settings in the toolbar.
3. In the Sites pane, double-click the site in the list.
4. In the Options pane, deselect the Performance Cache option.