Hi, I'm a total newbie. I have the trail so I'm a little under the gun to see if I can get this running before my trail runs out to see if I should buy.

I'm a home user, not a business. I have Verizon FIOS as my provider. I'm using FMP 9. Running on Windows Vista (grrrrr) I want to be able to access my DB from work and on my IPHONE. I've set up my static IP (internal) and in Instant Web Publishing it shows that internal address with the port 443. I've set up the Port Forwading as supplied in PortForward.com My router is an Actiontec MI424WR. I've been told by ALL the technical people that the address provided by IWP will not work on the outside web (192.168.1.5:443/). The external address I have seems to only access my router. I don't know how to reconcile the two addresses so I can see the DB from outside the home. WIll FMP 9 work from a home site?

You can configure FMP to broadcast IWP on ANY port you desire, however convention is to use port 591 (its reserved by FMI).

You must map the public IP and port to the internal IP and port.

All those people who told you it won't work on port 443 should now be able to tell how to make it work using port 591.

Bear in mind that the IWP performance will be limited by your upload bandwidth on your DSL connection.

Thanks IdealData, but I don't think I made myself clear. It's not the port that is the problem (at least that's not the first problem) it is that I don't know how to reconcile my internal IP address 192.168.1.5 with the external 71.170.138.2. FileMaker Pro only shows the internal when I go to IWP. That is what everyone keeps telling me won't work. They say any 192 is not accessable from the outside. If I try and put in 71.170.138.2:443 it tell me Page cannot be displayed. I just don't know enough to figure out to make this work. I guess I don't even know enough to ask the right questions.

If you do not have a static IP address setup with your Internet Service Provider (if you dont know then you probably do not have one) then you can go to someplace like dyndns.org, and read over their help stuff. Basically you will set up an account with them, then install their little updater and synch it with the account you just set up, and that will give you a nifty address and you wont have to worry about public IP anymore, just use that address. They take care of synching your address with your ever-changing public IP address.

Now if you do for sure have a static IP, you will need to assign your server a static internal IP address. Do you have a router? then try setting your router to DMZ to the internal IP of your server. This will direct all traffic to that box. If that works, then great. Eventually you will want to turn DMZ off and instead start forwarding the proper ports to your server, but that at least will get you started

Edited May 3, 200817 yr by Guest

.. DMZ has nothing to do with anything, this is a simple NAT issue.

Go to your router and look for port forwarding / NAT / Network address translation / sometimes firewall. You will need to forward port x to your internal IP (where x = whatever port you're hosting IWP on). That way, when your external ip is hit on port x (e.g. http://71.170.138.2:x), the router will see that all traffic hitting it on port x is to go to machine with the ip 192.168.1.5 and forward that traffic.

If you don't know how to get to your router, talk to your network admin.