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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Installing the Web Publishing Engine software components
Before you begin the installation process, review the following notes:
1 Exit other open programs and save your work.
1 Log on to the host computer using Administrator privileges.
1 If your computer is running virus protection software, turn it off prior to installation and then turn it back on
afterwards.
To install the Web Publishing Engine software components:
1. Insert the “FM Server 8 Web” CD into the CD or DVD drive on the host computer where you want to install
the Web Publishing Engine software components.
The FileMaker Server 8 Web Publishing CD window appears.
2. Click the Install icon.
3. Choose a language and click OK.
The default language selection matches your operating system language. A Complete Install installs the Web
Publishing Engine documentation (this FileMaker Server Advanced Web Publishing Installation Guide and the
FileMaker Server Advanced Custom Web Publishing Guide) in the language version you choose. You can
install additional language versions of the documentation by choosing Custom Install, and then selecting other
language packs from the list of supported languages.
4. When the InstallShield Wizard for the FileMaker Server Web Publishing Engine appears, click Next.
5. Read and accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next.
6. Enter your customer information and click Next.
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