Please help setting up web publishing

[fatherb]

Hi there,

I have filemaker server 8 advanced now. It is serving my databases fine across the network.

I want to serve one of the databases to some users over the internet. I have read and read and digested the pdf 'Web Publishing Setup Guide'.

I have installed FMSA8 on one machine (call it Dataserver) and have installed the web publishing engine on our IIS server (call it Server). The services appear to be running on the server and it has made a folder called jakarta.

However, I cannot get to the Web Publishing Administration console from typing - http://localhost/fmi/config. I just get 'page not found.' I do this from the IIS server machine - correct? Even if not, I also tried typing www.domainname.com/fmi/config and that doesn't work either.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the engine 3 times now and that doesn't seem to be the problem.

I checked where the jakarta folder under IIs points to - a file called isapi_redirect.dll. This can't be right can it?

Anyway, can anyone help please. I've checked loads of other posts on this forum. Plenty of people have mentioned the same problem, but no-one ever mentions how they fixed it.

Thanks.

[fatherb]

gee whiz! 70 views of this topic and nobody can offer a hint or a view on it?

[OP]

This will not be of much help but , last week I installed IIS on my laptop running XP Home, yes it can be done. Then I installed FM 8.5 Advanced and had the same problem, I tried everything and no admin console ever came up. Now after reading your post I went into the IIS mgr. Started IIS went to localhost/fmi/config and voila, the Admin Console appeared, first time. I have no idea what changed that caused it to magically appear. One major change on my machine was a ZoneLab upgrade, but I had shutdown Zonelab before, when it did not work. I wish I had an answer for you as I would like to know myself why it's now running. I'll keep poking around and see if I come up with anything.

Good Luck.