Installation guide

56 FileMaker Server Getting Started Guide
Disabling IIS authentication
By default, Windows IIS directory security attempts to authenticate all requests that are made through the
IIS web server. The simplest way to use IIS with FileMaker Server is to disable IIS authentication. If you
disable all IIS authentication methods and use anonymous access to the IIS site, then you don’t need to add
any Windows user accounts.
To disable IIS authentication:
1. From the Control Panel, choose Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to
open the Internet Information Services Manager.
2. In Internet Information Services, select the website and choose Action menu > Properties. You may have
to expand some of the nodes to see the websites.
3. In the Directory Security properties pane, click Edit for authentication methods. (The button name varies
slightly among Windows versions.)
4. In the Authentication Methods dialog box, do the following:
1 Ensure that Anonymous Access is enabled.
1 For Authenticated access, disable all of the authentication methods.
5. Click OK.
Enabling IIS authentication
If you enable any of the IIS authentication methods for the IIS web server, you must enable Basic
Authentication for websites that connect to the Web Publishing Engine. The Web Publishing Engine uses
only Basic Authentication. Other websites on the web server can use the other IIS authentication methods.
In this configuration, you must also create Windows user accounts on the web server host machine that
contain user names and passwords. These user names and passwords must exactly match the user names and
passwords for all password-protected accounts defined in all FileMaker databases that are published via
Custom Web Publishing with XML or XSLT.
To enable IIS authentication:
1. From the Control Panel, choose Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to
open the Internet Information Services Manager.
2. In Internet Information Services, select the website and choose Action menu > Properties. You may have
to expand some of the nodes to see the websites.
3. In the Directory Security properties pane, click Edit for authentication methods.
4. In the Authentications Methods dialog box, do the following:
1 Enable Anonymous access.
1 Enable Basic Authentication along with any of the other authentication methods under Authenticated
access.
5. Click OK.