Filemaker & IIS/ASP/Visual Studio

[Dazed]

Hello,

At the moment the business I work for has an existing File Maker Application, and is in the process of developing a new application using Visual Studio (SQL/VB...hoping for .NET).

Our FileMaker application is developed on a standalone server in our business, and then sent to a production server that does not have MS IIS on it.

We recently have obtained a new development server to use for the new app, which is on the business network. This server has:

Windows 2000 Advanced Server

MS IISv5

MS Site Server V3

SQL Server 2000

IE 5.5

Visual Studio 6.

To make our life easier, it would be great if we could load our existing filemaker application onto the same server.

I've heard there are problems however with Filemaker and IIS...I'm not sure what problems we may have with the other software on the server....I just found some info on the Web Server Connector which looks to be compatible with this server...and says it will bridge to Web Servers with IIS.

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Does anyone know if its just a matter of installing the Web Server Connector...and then it all works...or are there some little glitches...

Does anyone know if there will be any impact from Visual Studio's products being housed on the same server??

Appreciate any assistance you can offer.

Thanks.

[Kurt Knippel]

Well, when you say "Filemaker" do you mean Filemaker Server, Filemaker Pro or Filemaker Unlimited?

If you are talking Filemaker Server, then you really want to put it on its own machine, same thing with SQL Server. Database servers are important enough that they warrant thier own dedicated machines.

If you are talking Filemaker Unlimited, then it can reside on the same box as the web server, although I would recommend that it be on its own machine (a workstation class machine is fine).

If you are talking Filemaker Pro, which is the desktop client software, then I would put it on your own workstation, as you really should not be doing any development on the server.

[Dazed]

Hi Again,

Yes sorry its File Maker Pro we are using. The prod server will still be completely separate...my question is for development can we use the same server?

Thanks.

[Garry Claridge]

Re: To make our life easier

Try OS X, PHP, mySQL

Good Luck

Garry

[Anatoli]

Nice try