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
34 FileMaker Server Advanced Web Publishing Installation Guide
Using SSL and FileMaker Server encryption
Depending on your particular host computer configuration, you can use SSL and FileMaker Server encryption for
security. You can use SSL between the web server host computer and web user’s browsers. You can also use
FileMaker Server encryption between the FileMaker Server host computer and the Web Publishing Engine host
computer. For information on enabling FileMaker Server encryption, see FileMaker Server Help.
Registering the Web Publishing Engine with FileMaker Server
To enable web publishing in FileMaker Server, you must register the Web Publishing Engine with FileMaker
Server by using FileMaker Server Admin to specify an:
1 Identifier string that identifies the Web Publishing Engine to FileMaker Server.
1 Optional passcode to make sure that your FileMaker Server connects only to your particular Web Publishing
Engine. Passcodes prevent unauthorized users from using other Web Publishing Engines to access the
databases hosted by your FileMaker Server.
For information on how to register the Web Publishing Engine in FileMaker Server, see FileMaker Server Help.
(See a description of the simplest case in “Registering the Web Publishing Engine with FileMaker Server” on
page 17.)
After registering the Web Publishing Engine in FileMaker Server, you must configure the Web Publishing Engine
with the same identifier and passcode. See “Configuring the Web Publishing Engine for the first time” on page 50.
To authenticate a connection for web publishing, FileMaker Server compares the identifier and passcode specified
in the Web Publishing Engine with the identifier and passcode specified in FileMaker Server. If the identifiers or
passcodes don’t match, FileMaker Server denies the connection.
Here is an example of the information you would need to specify in a three-computer configuration:
FileMaker Server
Web Publishing Engine
Web Publishing Core
Custom Web Publishing
Engine (CWPE)
Web Server
Web Server Module
Administration Console
The Web Publishing Engine is
registered in FileMaker Server with
“WPE_1” as the FileMaker Server
identifier and “Passcode_1” as the
passcode.
The Web Publishing Engine is configured
with 192.168.100.101 as the IP address of
the FileMaker Server host, “WPE_1” as
the FileMaker Server identifier, and
“Passcode_1” as the passcode.
WPE_1
Passcode_1
Web server
host computer
FileMaker Server host
computer (192.168.100.101)
Web Publishing Engine
host computer