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Hosting websites Using Instant Web Publishing
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ILEMAKER SERVER 9 HELP 50
Using Instant Web Publishing
Instant Web Publishing allows you to quickly and easily publish your database on the web. You don’t
need to modify your database files or install additional software — anyone with compatible web
browser software and access to the internet or an intranet can connect to your database to view,
edit, sort, or search records, if you give them access privileges
.
Note Instant Web Publishing is available only if you have a FileMaker Server Advanced license.
For more information on developing a FileMaker Pro database that works well with Instant Web
Publishing, see F
ILEMAKER INSTANT WEB PUBLISHING GUIDE on the Start Page.
To host a website using Instant Web Publishing:
1. In FileMaker Pro, open the database and edit the privilege set for the account that will
access the database. Enable the extended privilege
Access via Instant Web Publishing.
Note If your FileMaker database solution uses more than one FileMaker database file, all of the
database files must use this privilege set with the extended privilege Access via Instant Web
Publishing enabled.
2. Upload
the database file to FileMaker Server with the Upload Database assistant. See
Hosting databases
(page 31).
Note If your FileMaker database solution uses more than one FileMaker database file, all of the
database files must be on the same computer.
3. In FileMaker Server Admin Console, enable and configure Instant Web Publishing on the
Web Publishing > Instant Web Publishing tab.
4. (Optional) You can replace the default Database Homepage that web users see when they
log out of a session or the session times out.
Place your custom home page named iwp_home.html in the following location on the machine
that is running the Web Publishing Engine
:
• Windows: [drive]:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Web Publishing\IWP
• Mac OS: /Library/FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/IWP
5. If you’re using static HTML pages, images, or other externally referenced files with your
FileMaker database, you need to move those files to the root folder of the web server
software. Make sure the relative path is preserved.
• For IIS (Windows), move the files to: [drive]:\inetpub\wwwroot
• For Apache (Mac OS), move the files to: /Library/WebServer/Documents
6. Test that your database is being published with Instant Web Publishing. Enter the following
URL into a web browser:
http://<address>/fmi/iwp
where <address> is either the IP address
or host name of the web server.
Related topics
Instant Web Publishing settings (page 87)
Hosting websites
(page 44)