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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Step 4. Install FileMaker Server 8 Advanced
Important Follow the standard installation instructions to install the FileMaker Server 8 Advanced web publishing
components, but do not restart your system as suggested at the end of installation (restarting your system may
restart web publishing processes and services).
1 If you are installing the web publishing components on a one-computer configuration, see chapter 2,
“Installation quick start.”
1 To install the web publishing components using multiple-computer configurations, see chapter 4, “Installing
the Web Publishing Engine in various host configurations.”
Step 5. Restore your settings
After you have saved your web publishing settings from FileMaker Server 7 Advanced and have installed
FileMaker Server 8 Advanced, you can use the Restore Settings tool to move your web publishing settings to
FileMaker Server 8 Advanced.
Note If you restarted the system after installing the web publishing components, you may need to stop the web
publishing processes before restoring your settings, as described in “Step 1. Stop processes and services” on
page 26.
1. Insert the “FileMaker Server 8 Web Publishing” CD into the CD or DVD drive.
2. Run the Restore Settings tool.
3. Mac OS: Enter your Mac OS authentication passphrase.
4. When the Restore Settings tool is finished, click OK to quit the Restore Settings tool.
Restart the system so that the restored settings take effect.