Filemaker 4 on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6

[teschek]

We are presently running Filemaker 4 databases on a Windows NT webserver using IIS 5. We are soon going to replace the server and I'm trying to find out if we will be able to successfully run FMP 4 on a Windows 2003 server running IIS 6. Any thoughts?

[Wim Decorte]

I think you'll get mixed results. It's with like running FM4 on XP. There are those where it works and those where it crashes frequently. You're trying to mix technology of vastly different eras. Not something I would do easily. You will certainly be without official support for it.

[teschek]

That makes me wonder if I should upgrade to FMP 7, but that brings up another issue. We have two versions of each of our databases. One is on a development server for use in house, and the other is on our public webserver and serves up database pages for the web. As changes are made to each database on the development server, the files are copied up to the public server. Now the problem. The development is (and will remain for the foreseeable future) a Windows NT server, while the public webserver will be Windows 2003. So I have to run the same version of FMP on both servers in order for this separation to continue to work, and I assume FMP 7 will not work with NT.

Is the solution to just use one copy on the public webserver and have it also be the database we use for adding new records, etc.? This was all set up before I came here and I'm not sure whether the split is necessary or not.