PHP site assistant won't connect to server

[wngiii]

need some help troubleshooting this. when I open up the site assistant it will not find the filemaker Server we have the database hosted on. even if I run site assistant from the machine server is hosted on.

any thoughts on things to look at?

[brownt]

need some help troubleshooting this. when I open up the site assistant it will not find the filemaker Server we have the database hosted on. even if I run site assistant from the machine server is hosted on.

any thoughts on things to look at?

Did you ever get this resolved? I am having the same issue.

[Aussie John]

Same problem here - "connection failed" (OK in XML site assistant) when looking for the database

[Wodin]

I had issues something like this quite a while ago so I can't remember if it was exactly this problem.

If I remember correctly, the problem in my case was that the "hostspec" in the following file was wrong:

"/Library/FileMaker Server/Web Publishing/publishing-engine/php/lib/php/FileMaker/conf/filemaker-api.php"

(That's on OS X, of course, but I imagine there's a similar file on Windows.)

I think that in my case the value was incorrect because of the server's IP address being changed after installing FileMaker.

Here's the relevant part of the file:

/**

 * The default hostspec (http://localhost:80, for example). DO NOT

 * include /fmi/xml in this string.

 */

$__FM_CONFIG['hostspec'] = 'https://localhost:443';

I have https://localhost:443 there because I have Apache configured to require encrypted connections to IWP.

This may not have anything to do with your problem, though.