setting up a raic?

[Batfastad]

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

[Garry Claridge]

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

Good Luck.

Garry

[LiveOak]

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

[Batfastad]

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

[LiveOak]

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

[Steve T.]

[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

[Batfastad]

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?