FileMaker Server 2024

Wow, no posts in this category yet. Surprising. I've been playing with installing FMS24 on Ubuntu 22.04.3. I first tried an upgrade on top of the existing FMS23 install, because our IT guy said we should learn if we could. The install seemed to go fine. The admin console launched and things seemed fine. I saw something about rebooting to make the settings persist, so I did that, but FMS did not come back up with the system. I then tried doing a `sudo apt remove filemaker-server` and a fresh install, but experience the same behavior after reboot. I don't see any instructions about making FMS start on boot, so I thought the installer was taking care of all t…

I don't have the budget for Windows Server at the moment so I want to ask if Filemaker Server 2024 (or latest version) can be installed on Windows 11? What is the Computer Hardware requirements?

I am currently hosting our Filemaker server on AWS .. Looking for a new hosting company . Can anyone please recommend a reliable hosting company that will off Web direct. We are a small company with about 20 users. We have the newst filemaker and am now looking for a good hostng company. Thank You

Today I moved a file from FMS16 (macOS) to FMS21 (Ubuntu). I first closed the file on the old server, then used scp to move it to the new server. Then I moved it into the FMS databases folder and did sudo chown fmserver:fmsadmin on the file before opening it using the admin console. When I accessed the file via WebDirect, it all looked good, except that the latest 10 records or so were not present. If I access the original file on the old server, everything is fine. Any ideas?

Migrated a file to FMS 21.1.1.40 yesterday, and one of our users alerted me that printing in WebDirect was only generating a blank page without text. I found that this is because the layout uses Helvetica font, which is not installed by Ubuntu (server is on 22.04LTS). It looks like the server should have a substitute: $ fc-match Helvetica NimbusSans-Regular.otf: "Nimbus Sans" "Regular" Is it FileMaker Server that isn't doing something right, maybe?

When I saw FMS complain about needing JDK 17, I assumed that meant a minimum version of 17, so I installed OpenJDK 23.0.2. Just completed an install of FMS 21.1.40 (macOS) and the admin console still complains about JDE 17. Do you really have to have version 17, and ONLY version 17? What's the reason for that? Seems kind of silly...

First off I want to say that I haven't done a FileMaker Server upgrade since probably version 17 so it's been awhile. I'm looking for a best practices checklist if you will. I know I can upgrade to the latest and greatest via the admin console but before I click that nice button that says "Upgrade FileMaker Server" I want to be sure I have my ducks in a row. ( 1 ) I have already downloaded the lastest version ( 21.1.1.1 ) of FileMaker Server to my FileMaker Server machine. ( 2 ) I'm going to run a full backup on all the open files. ( 3 ) Our plugins are compatible as we only use MBS and BaseElements. Once I click the "Upgrade FileMaker Server" will…

New install of latest Server on Windows 2019. Following this document. Web publishing will not stay on. Spoke with support. Uninstalled everything. Re installed with alternate JDK from Oracle. Adjusted JAVA_HOME. Now the button stays on for a tiny bit longer. But still no joy. I did all this on 2012 and I recall Java was a pest then too! Any tips on troubleshooting please? I’m on my iPhone slightly lacking in details so I apologise for that. But how did you get Web Publishing going? Thanks for your time, it’s much appreciated.

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