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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1 If your computer is running virus protection software, turn it off prior to installation and then turn it back on
afterwards.
1 Mac OS X Server with Web Server Module installed: Disable the Performance Cache option for the
Apache web server. The performance cache may interfere with FileMaker Server Advanced and data may not
refresh correctly.
To disable the Performance Cache on Mac OS X Server 10.3:
1. In the Mac OS X Server Admin, click Web in the list for the desired server.
2. Click Settings in the toolbar.
3. In the Sites pane, double-click the site in the list.
4. In the Options pane, deselect the Performance Cache option.
Installing the Web Publishing Engine software components
To install the Web Publishing Engine software components:
1. Insert the “FileMaker Server 8 Web Publishing” CD into the CD or DVD drive on the host computer where
you want to install the Web Publishing Engine software components.
The disc’s window appears on your screen. If you see only the disc icon, double-click the CD icon to open its
window.
2. Double-click the FileMaker Web Publishing Engine installer.
3. If the installer requests authentication, enter a user name and password for an administrator account.
4. Read and accept the terms of the license agreement and click Accept.
The Easy Install dialog box appears.
5. Do one of the following:
1 To install all of the software components on the current host computer (the Web Publishing Engine, the
Web Server Module, and the Administration Console), choose Easy Install and proceed to step 8.
1 To install only some of the software components on the current host computer (either the Web Publishing
Engine, or the Web Server Module and Administration Console), choose Custom Install and proceed to
step 6.
6. If you chose Custom, select the software components you want to install on the current host computer:
1 To install the Web Publishing Engine only, select Web Publishing Engine.
1 To install the Web Server Module and Administration Console only, select Web Server Module and
Administration Console. The Web Server Module and Administration Console are installed together as a unit.
1 To install additional language versions of the Web Publishing Engine documentation, select the appropriate
language pack.
7. If you are installing the Web Server Module and Administration Console on a different host computer than the
Web Publishing Engine, enter the IP address of the host computer where the Web Publishing Engine is
installed. Otherwise, the installer does not request the IP address and you can skip this step.