Web Publishing Help for a Novice

[John Beck]

I am a novice in using the web publishing function on FM Server 7. I recently installed the advanced application that supports web publishing on an OS X Server. My test database is active and useable via the FileMaker Network. However, I cannot activate the Web Publishing Engine. When I open the /fmi/iwp URL, I see my database, but when I click on it, I see this error message: "JavaScript Unknown Error Number 802."

I am also using the OS X Server as my web server, so I suspect a port conflict, but I don't know how to fix it! Can anyone tell me where to start?

John Beck

[Steve T.]

Howdy, J! Sorry for the late reply but I don't really use IWP but maybe I can help you some, anyway...

Mac OS X Server uses Apache to web serve. The default web port is 80 and you should probably leave that if you are using Mac OS X Server to serve web pages. If you want to change this for some reason, though, you can do so from

Server Admin utility > WEB > SITES

or from the Apache config file /httpd/httpd.conf but I wouldn't mess with the command line unless you're comfortable with a little unix.

A port typically used for FM web traffic is :591 which was registered by FileMaker, Inc. but you can also use ports like :8080 if you prefer.

Now, I haven't jumped into the FM7 world yet, so don't know much about that line of products but assuming FM7 Server allows web publishing, you can probably change its port number relatively easily. In FM4-6 I think it was where you configure the Web Companion plug-in.

I wouldn't be surprised if you needed FM7 Server Advanced in order to web publish, though. That's what it's marketed for, anyway, and if FM7 Server has web publishing ability, I'd think it'd be limited like FM7 client.

Also double-check that the db is shared for web. Shared over the network is not the same setting and you can have combinations that are web-shared only, net-shared only, shared on both, or neither.

Hope this helps some!

--ST