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 FileMaker Site Assistant and FileMaker CDML Converter
You can install the FileMaker Site Assistant on any computer that has network access to the Web Publishing
Engine, or you can install it on the same computer as the Web Publishing Engine. The Site Assistant needs access
to the Web Publishing Engine to operate.
You can install the FileMaker CDML Converter, which does not need access to the Web Publishing Engine, on
any computer.
To install the FileMaker Site Assistant and FileMaker CDML Converter tools:
1. Insert the “FM Server 8 Web” CD into the CD or DVD drive on the host computer where you want to install
the tools.
The FileMaker Server 8 Web Publishing CD window appears.
2. Click the Browse icon.
3. Locate and double-click the Setup.exe file in the FileMaker Web Publishing Tools folder.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to install either or both tools.
To install the FileMaker Site Assistant and FileMaker CDML Converter tools from the command line:
1. Insert the “FM Server 8 Web” CD into the CD or DVD drive on the host computer where you want to install
the tools.
2. Open a command window and type:
msiexec /i <path>\FMS 8 Web Publishing Tools.msi /qn+ /Lr <log file>.txt
where:
1 <path> is the drive for your CD or DVD drive and this folder path:
\FileMaker Web Publishing Tools
Note If you have copied the FMS 8 Web Publishing Tools.msi to your hard disk, replace the preceding path with
the path to the file’s location on your hard disk.
1 <log file>.txt specifies the path and name of the text log file, such as C:\logfile.txt. You can view the log file
with WordPad or a word processing program.
For more information on using msiexec, see Windows help.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Where to go from here
After you install the Web Publishing Engine, you must use the Administration Console to configure the Web
Publishing Engine. For more information, see chapter 7, “Configuring the Web Publishing Engine.”