chuckem77

Nevermind. I got it. Thanks so much all of you. It was only a matter of putting the port number after the ip address.

First of all thanks everyone for replying so quickly. I appreciate your help. Mr. Dore in regards to your posting: >your APPLICATION >>PREFERENCES >>PLUGINS >>WEBCOMPANION. You must tell FMP >which specific layouts to use for the four basic data entry methods >(Table/Form/Search/Sort) - see the SHARING preferences and SETUP VIEWS. You >need specific layout in your database to accommodate the various VIEWS [color:"blue"] Ok, I did that >Use the "built in" home page to keep thing simple [color:"blue"] Got that, did it. >FMP will generate a starting html page when you enter the absolute URL of the serving machine. (eg. 12.34.56.78:81) [color:"blue"]This is the key piece that I'm missing. I have not seen where it is i am supposed to enter the ip address. [color:"red"] Attached [color:"blue"]are the three screens that you refered to in the posting as they appear on my computer.

Argh! Please help, I'm a teacher and I've been trying to bring this simple idea to fruition over the past month to no avail. One of the avenues I have tried unsuccessfully is using filemaker pro to create a very simple web-based 10 field database. I have a smaple database created and I see that there is apprently the ability for instant web publishing for Filemaker Pro 6, but i swear these help files are useless. I think I have read 20 times how you can do it , with no mention of how. So I have the database and I need a step by step on how to actually get it accessible on the web. Here's what I've done. Created the database, set up a server on my computer, enabled web companion and configured it for port 81 since 80 was occupied, I have navigated to the web folder in filemaker pro directory and tried to open the file with the fp5 extension but it does not allow me to open it on computers without filemaker pro. Isn't there supposed to be an html file, does it make these files automatically, or what? Help! Chuck Marshall