OK,

I've been using filemaker on the web for about 6 months now, for various low-traffic searches but now I'm looking to step it up to the next level.

I have it set up using custom web publishing and including database queries using PHP on my remote site.

Because I hear the web companion is only single-threaded meaning it can only process one request at a time.

I'm not using the web server connector.

I have it running using FileMaker Unlimited 5 and i've heard there's a way to make a RAIC with multiple copies of FileMaker Unlimited to process more than one request.

How do I do this?

Presumably I need to be running the web server connector?

Which involves setting up a web server.

Does it work with Apache? I've got plenty of experience of setting up Apache so I don't really want to go down the route of using IIS

What are the options?

How would I go about setting up a RAIC to handle more requests??

Thanks

Ben

Documents about this existed on the Filmaker site. Have you checked if they are still there?

Good Luck.

Garry

This is one of the areas where moving to FM 7 can be a big advantage. If you need very many simultaneous threads, adding additional computers and copies of FM Unlimited (+ UPS + KVM) can get pricey at a $2K+ per thread. I'd exhaust all other options before going down this path.

-bd

I already have a rackmounted KVM with a spare 2 ports and a spare machine.

An additional copy of FileMaker unlimited from ebay, $600

As far as I know, there are no other options to make a multi-threaded filemaker web solution other than setting up a RAIC.

To increase speed at the moment I have a bandwidth throttling system in place and that guarantees 300kbps to port 591 which serves our web requests.

I had a search on the filemaker site for some information on how to actually set up a RAIC but all I could find were the FAQs and datasheets on filemaker unlimited which only mention that it is possible to set it up.

Couldn't find a white paper on how to actually do it.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

I personally don't have experience setting up a raic. I know it adds an additional piece (web server connector). I found this on the FM web site with a Google search for "filemaker web server connector":

www.filemaker.com/downloads/pdf/FMPUscenarios.pdf

It has some limited information.

-bd

[unrelated comment of jealousy...]

Dang, bat! In the past 6 months you've been doing all the stuff I've wanted to do but never got around to actually doing or had the funding to try... keep pushing the envelope, buddy!

--ST

It must be said that in the past year or so I've really been finding the limits of filemaker - especially with regards to CDML and the web stuff.

Now I've found a happy medium to using CDML and PHP, by just including CDML queries with PHP.

It's come to a stage where it's so effective I need to set up a raic in order to speed things up a bit.

Though in a few months our area will be getting SDSL meaning we can have 2mbps upload and 2mbps download so hopefully I won't need to set up a raic.

Just wondered how you go about it really.

Any ideas anyone?

Does the web server connector work with Apache on windows 2000 server?