Logout leads to IWP default page - how to change?

Jul · February 16, 2005

I have a home page that contains links to FM databases published through IWP in FM Server 7 Adv. When users click "Logout" or "Cancel" on the logon window they are automatically redirected to the default iwp page. Is there a way to change that? Right now to return to that home page they have to start all over again and it is really a pain.

Thank you very much!

Zero Tolerence · February 17, 2005

I believe you can edit the IWP homepage, you would just have to locate it in your FM folder, turn it into a redirection page. So yes, they see it, but then in 1 sec it sends them straight back to your home page.

Jul · February 21, 2005

I am new to FMSA 7. Could you tell me where I should look for that page? So far I found only the default error page in on of the Library/FileMaker Server 7/... folders.

Thank you very much!

goodnews · February 27, 2005

I am also looking for similar information. Can someone help? Thank you

FMWebschool · March 1, 2005

The FileMaker IWP home page is located at:

filemakerpro7/extensions/websupport/resource/iwpres/iwp_home.html

You can rename the iwp_home.html to iwp_home_old.html and build a new page

named iwp_home.html that redirects you back to wherever you want.

Christensen Design · October 6, 2011

With IWP, whenever you click the Cancel button on the login page or execute an 'Exit Application' script command, FM loads the 'iwp_home.html' page. By default this displays a directory of all available FM databases. If you want the browser to go somewhere else when the user clicks Cancel/Exit App, you can simply replace the default 'iwp_home.html page with a page that does a redirect. So.. make an html:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html lang="en">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

<title>My Web Site</title>

</head>

<body>

	<p>Redirecting please wait...</p>

	<script type="text/javascript">window.location="http://www.mywebsite.com/"</script>

</body>

</html>

Just replace the URL above with the location you want the user to go. Then save in a text file named 'iwp_home.html' and replace the existing file located at:

C:\Program Files (x86)\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Web Publishing\publishing-engine\wpc\Resources\iwpres\iwp_home.html

You may want to rename the existing file 'OLD' so that you can revert.

Fitch · October 6, 2011

Not sure what prompted you to respond to a 6-year old thread, but thanks for posting some useful info. :exactly:

Christensen Design · October 11, 2011

One more thing on this issue...

There is an error in the Javascript code of the sample HTML page above. The <script> tag should read as follows:


<script type="text/javascript">top.location="http://www.mywebsite.com/"</script>

Because FM IWP uses frames, to properly redirect to your custom URL you must reference the 'top' object for the redirect (not the 'window' object). Whenever a frameset is loaded into the main window a frame tree is created which sort of takes the place of the normal 'window' object. This new object is called 'top' in the DOM.

And yes.. I did realize that this was a pretty old post. I had to solve this problem the other day and could not find a solution. So thought I'd write it down for future reference. Cheers!

Fitch · October 11, 2011

To make sure I can find this discussion again easily:

This topic has been moved from "FileMaker and WEB 2.0 Technology → Publishing FileMaker Online → Using FileMaker Online" to "FileMaker and WEB 2.0 Technology → Publishing FileMaker Online → Instant Web Publishing [iWP]".

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