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
26 FileMaker Server Advanced Web Publishing Installation Guide
Step 1. Stop processes and services
You must stop all web publishing processes and services, including the Administration Console, the Web
Publishing Engine, FileMaker Server, and the web server.
Stopping processes and servers (Windows)
1. Log out of the Administration Console.
2. Choose the Start button > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Services to open the Services administration
tool.
3. To stop the Web Publishing Core component of the Web Publishing Engine, choose the FileMaker Publishing
Engine (WPC) service and choose Action menu > Stop.
4. To stop the Administration Console, choose the FileMaker Publishing Engine (CONFIG) service and choose
Action menu > Stop.
5. To stop the Custom Web Publishing Engine component, choose the FileMaker Publishing Engine (CWPE) service
and choose Action menu > Stop.
Note If you installed the Administration Console and the Web Publishing Engine on the same host computer, the
two services are combined into the FileMaker Publishing Engine (CWPE & CONFIG) service.
Stopping processes and servers (Mac OS)
1. Log out of the Administration Console.
2. Run the Terminal application (in the Utilities folder).
3. To stop the Web Publishing Engine and Administration Console, enter:
sudo SystemStarter stop "FileMaker Web Publishing"
Step 2. Save your settings
If you want to save your web publishing settings, you must use the Back Up Settings tool before you uninstall
FileMaker Server 7 Advanced.
Note To run the Back Up Settings tool, you must use a login account with administrative privileges.
1. Insert the “FileMaker Server 8 Web Publishing” CD into the CD or DVD drive.
2. Run the Back Up Settings tool.
3. Mac OS: Enter your Mac OS authentication passphrase.
4. When the Back Up Settings tool is finished, click OK to quit the Back Up Settings tool.