FX.php and FMStudio setup problems

[stanley]

Hello All:

I'm having problems setting up FMStudio and FX.php, and the documentation and movies, etc., aren't helping me. I'm on OSX, and am connecting to my web server / FMSA server via VPN. I have been able to install FX.php, and create a page - everything goes to the right place. Then I go to select a database, and I get a 404 error, indicating either a mapping issue or that I have no testing server. I'm not sure I even understand what these things mean, in the end.

I have access to the FMSA server via the local connection, at the IP address I specified in Dreamweaver, because I can connect to the database via FMP via that route. What am I missing?

I'm sure this is a simple config issue, but as all the docs and videos are Windows-centric, I'm having a hard time identifying where I have gone wrong.

Any help appreciated.

-Stanley

[stanley]

I have been in touch with the folks at fmwebschool, and we have been trying to debug my situation over the last few days to no avail. We're running Apache as a web server and FMSA8 (both on the same box on OSX), and although I can see the web pages I generate in Dreamweaver via the web, I am still unable to connect to the testing server via Dreamweaver and FX. If anybody has any ideas on this I'd love to hear from you, and if anybody has any hints for me, that would be great too.

-Stanley

[FMWebschool]

We also wanted to provide an update on the situation:

After extensive testing and debugging the issue seems to be with a misconfiguration of the server itself. Strangely, on that server any requests which are made to the localhost IWP installation (using http://127.0.0.1/fmi/xml/.... or using the actual IP address) are rewritten into "http://i). That character sequence seems to come up for any self-addressing URLs even when using a browser on the server. Therefore we could not get the local PHP server to make requests to the localhost WPE server. However, external requests coming into the server for the WPE engine are working properly.

Currently Stanley is attempting an install of FMSA on a different server to see if it will solve the strange issue.

Any suggestions from anyone who had experienced random URL rewriting are appreciated.

[FMWebschool]

This has been solved, Stanely posted on our FMStudio forum at: http://fmwebschool.com/frm/index.php?topic=772.msg2873#msg2873

Stanely, we are glad that things are going great now!

In Kindness

Stephen Knight

http://www.fmwebschool.com/fmstudio.php

[stanley]

Moving FMSA to the second server did indeed solve the problem.

-Stanley