Changing the port for IWP in FM Pro Server advanced

[TerribleToll]

Does anyone know how to change the port for IWP in FM Pro Server advanced? Strangely it is missing from the manual ... but then again so are most things, so maybe it is not so strange after all.

It is easily done in FMPro adv!

thanks in advance - Anatole

[Wim Decorte]

It's not in the manual because it's not a FileMaker Server setting. It's something you set on your web server (IIS on Windows or Apache on OSX).

[TerribleToll]

Thanks for the reply - the FM community has been a bit silent on this issue. So it is more-or-less what I thought the problem was. Any ideas how you can change the port in Apache?

[seancwr]

Depends on the OS... if its OSX server with the default Apache installation, you can do it through the server admin panel. (Settings in the web section.) If it OSX standard or some other installation of Apache you need to find the httpd.conf file (/etc/httpd.conf or something like that) and change the line where its says Listen 80 to read Listen 8080 or whatever port you want, then restart apache.

[TerribleToll]

Thanks for that. FileMaker IWP appears to follow the default website port as set in the OSX Server Admin, - when I change that it seems to follow.

At last - one small step.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

When using FileMaker Server 8 Advanced, you are not using FileMaker Server to serve to the Web. You are using either IIS or Apache. All such settings are made within the Web Server software, not within FileMaker Server or FileMaker Pro.

The Web Publishing Engine enables communication between the Web Server (IIS or Apache) and FileMaker Server's databases.

HTH

Steven