Andrew Nicolay

This worked for me, very easy! Thank you for the tip!

It had something to do with the OS, I had to uninstall everything on the machine, uninstalled java and reinstalled, that seemed to fix it, but I had to use an old version of Java.

I'm thinking this is an OSX issue and not Filemaker... This Mac Mini literally has nothing on it but Filemaker Server. When I install filemaker server, at the very end, I noticed there is a item in the dock that is not responding "org.apache.catalina.startup.bootstrap". If I leave this alone, I can get the admin console to open and go through setup. However, if I force close this item or restart the mini, all filemaker services vanish.

This is a clean install as of right now, there are no files hosted since I can't even get the admin console to open and walk through setup. When I open Activity Monitor, there is not a single filemaker service running.

I'm helping a client who has an old install of Filemaker Server Advanced 11 running on a Mac Mini. It's been running Filemaker v11.5 for about 2 year without any issue... All of a sudden today, it stopped working! I checked to see if there were any updates installed from apple or java... NONE! I completely uninstalled Filemaker Server and reinstalled v11.5 and applied the java fix... still won't start. Just for laughs I installed v11.2, that installed fine, up and running no problem, as soon as I restart the Mac Mini, everything takes a dump. When I go to localhost:16000 or serverip:16000 in the browser, nothing happens, as if filemaker server was never even installed. If I double click the applet icon, it says "Unable to launch the application - Connection Refused". Any thoughts?