Basic Supercontainer Deployment

[tdsiebert]

Hi,

I am relatively new to SC and have a couple basic questions. I am deploying a system with the following configuration. FMS 11 running on Mac OSX 10.6. Most clients are FMP11 on windows 7, some Mac. All clients are on LAN - no IWP.

1) To use SC in this setup does the server software need to be Filemaker Server Advanced or just FMS?

2) The client also has a main fileserver running Windows Server 2003. Is it better performance (or easier to configure) if we store the SC data files on the same Mac as FMS, or should we store them on the Windows Server? If we wanted the data files stored on the windows box how would we configure this? Would SC itself still run on the FMS box with files stored across network, or would SC run on Windows Server?

I am an expert at Mac and FM ... but quite new to mixed platform installations, and know little of web technologies like Java so please keep it as simple as possible.

Thanks,

Ted

[Smef]

The easiest solution for you would probably to deploy SuperContianer in stand-alone mode on the Windows machine. To do this you only need to run the SuperContainerServer.jar file. This will launch SuperContainerServer as a stand-alone application running on that computer, and will make it easiest for you to store your files on that machine.

An alternative would be to install SuperContainer with your FileMaker Server and then store the files on the remote windows machine by configuring the SuperContainer web.xml file located at FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/cwpe-tomcat/bin/SuperContainer/WEB-INF/web.xml. Your performance wouldn't be quite as fast as the first option (though the difference would probably be very small), and setting up permissions on the share can be a bit tricky, but it is possible to do this way.

Either way you will want to point your web viewers and the SC Companion Plugin to the address of the machine running the SuperContianer Server, and not the machine where you have your files stored on. The users get pointed to where the server is running, and then SuperContinaer stores the files to wherever is specified in the web.xml file.