IWP with FMS9 Advanced

[nick_wales]

Hi

We're running a windows box (SBS 2003) with FileMaker Server 9 Advanced.

I've enabled IWP from the Admin Console (on IIS) and can view the IWP home page fine from the server itself (at http://127.0.0.1/)

However, I can't acces it externally from the web. The box is connected to a router and I've opened the following ports:

5003

50003

16000

160001

80

I can open the file remotely fine using FileMaker Pro 9 on a client machine, but can't see the IWP page by browsing to the server's public IP address on port 80.

Is there a specific address I should be using or do I need to do anything with additional with IIS to make this work? (I've not touched IIS on the box to date, I'm just using it to run the IWP).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Nick

[Mark DeNyse]

Nick,

Did you forward port 80 on the router to your server, or set the server as the routers 'DMZ zone'?

[Steven H. Blackwell]

Tow items:

1. Three are a number of additional ports that need to be opened. See FileMaker Tech Info #6427.

2. You are using an unsupported OS here. That can be the source of many issues.

Steven

[nick_wales]

Thanks for this. I've opened all of those ports on the router now.

the FMS_Sample file is set up for web publising on port 591 but I can't browse to this externally at the moment even though that port is open on the router.

I can browse externally to the server admin console on port 16000 (http://server ip:16000) but when I try to open the web publishing test page it fails.

The web publishing test page is at 127.0.0.1/fmi/iwp - I can access this from the server itself but not externally.

I think I'm missing some configuration at the IIS end but I'm not sure what. By enabling web puslibing in the server admin console, FMS appears to have added its own web service extension within IIS but it hasn't added a web site. Do I need to do this?

thanks

Nick

[Steven H. Blackwell]

the FMS_Sample file is set up for web publising on port 591

Don't do that. The port setting is controlled in IIS, not in the FMP file.

What are the access settings in the IIS manager? All windows authentication must be disabled (generally) and anonymous access must be enabled.

Steven

[nick_wales]

Thanks.

The only thing that FMS has set up in IIS is a web service extension called FMI Web Publishing which set as 'allowed' and has the following 'required file' assigned in it:

c:program filesfilemakerfilemaker serverweb publishingpublishing-engineweb-server-supportiisasapi_redirect.dll

There is no way to set a port within this web service extension - do I need need to create a website within IIS to run the IWP?

Additionally, The web service extension doesn't give me any options to disable the authentication you mentioned.

There are other websites set up in IIS to run on port 80 - should I just go into these and disabled the authentication?

Thanks for your help so far.

[nick_wales]

Sorry, please ingore the last post. I've got this running now on port 80. I edited the generic website that was set up in IIS to allow access to all IPs.

Thanks

Nick

[Steven H. Blackwell]

This must be done with IIS Manager from the Controls area. And you're not helping yourself by running Windows Server 2003 SBS, which is not a certified OS for FileMaker Server 9.

Steven