Getting Filemaker server to serve a web page

[cnocera]

I have installed the trial version of Filemaker on an NT4 machine and made all the settings. It is running as a service. Probably because of my inexperience with Filemaker, it just sits there.

How do I set it up to serve the database files over the internet from a web browser? Do I need additional plug-ins? Do I need to make settings in IIS?

All help will be greatly appreciated.

Carl

[LiveOak]

I'm not sure I completely understand what you are asking. It seems like it is either 1) can you administer FM Server with a web browser or 2) can you serve web pages from FM Server. If your question is 2), the answer is no, FM Server doesn't serve web pages. You'll need a copy of FileMaker Pro Unlimited which would then open databases on FM Server. FM Server doesn't have the normal UI, can't run scripts, can't use plug-ins, etc. Its one trick is host FM database files. -bd

[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by LiveOak:

Its one trick is host FM database files. -bd

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Correct, Filemaker Server is a DATABASE SERVER. It is nothing else, not a web server, not a file server, not an e-mail server, just a database server.

Filemaker Unlimited along with the Web Companion plugin is basically a mini-web server, specifically designed to make Filemaker databases available on web pages.

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[cnocera]

Thanks for the information.

My final objective is to host filemaker databases so that they may be accessed and edited by various people via a web browser. I want to do basically the same thing that Filemaker Pro 5 (Not server) does, Except that I want to run it as an NT service.

Is Filemaker unlimited the only solution or can this be done another way?

Carl

[Vaughan]

FileMaker specifically warn against running FMP5 Unliimted and Server as services under NT. There is a TechInfo article about it at the FileMaker Inc web site. Yopu might also search this forum archive as well, the issue came up a few months ago.

[Anatoli]

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Originally posted by Vaughan:

FileMaker specifically warn against running FMP5 Unliimted and Server as services under NT. There is a TechInfo article about it at the FileMaker Inc web site. Yopu might also search this forum archive as well, the issue came up a few months ago.

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Unlimited should not run as service.

Server MUST be a service under NT or 2000

[LiveOak]

I think both FM 5 and FM 5 Unlimited will work with Lasso, however, FMI only licenses FM Ulimited for such use legally. -bd

[Anatoli]

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Originally posted by LiveOak:

I think both FM 5 and FM 5 Unlimited will work with Lasso, however, FMI only licenses FM Ulimited for such use legally. -bd

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Up to 10 IP addresses within 12 hour period in FM5 really does not cut with Lasso.