OK still can't seem to get this up and running. I'm purely doing this for local development only with PHP.

I'm on Win7 x64

Installed to the C drive.

Uninstalled my copy of Java update 21, and installed Java update7

Bonjour was already installed and I left it alone

Installed and started up IIS7 and made sure its working OK. Basically left everything at default, put an index.html in the wwwroot folder and 127.0.0.1:80 works fine.

I completely disabled Windows Firewall just for kicks to make sure its not an issue

Installed FM 10 as a single user

Before running the Admin console pre launch page, I stopped the Filemaker service and updated to 10.2. After installing 10.2, it automatically restarted the service.

Verified that all four executables are running (fmadminserver.exe, fmserver.exe, fmservicewrapper.exe, fmshelper.exe).

Finally, I launched the prelaunch screen. It just loops with: "Please wait while the Admin Server starts..."

When I visit 127.0.0.1:16000 I get the standard HTTP 500 error: "Server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request"

Anything else I can test or try?

Why didn't you let the installation complete before installing v2? Typically FMS requires a reboot after the installation before you can get going and you seem to have skipped this step...

Actually - the last step of the installation does not ask for a reboot. An item is automatically checked right before you click finish that immediately launches the admin console's prelaunch webpage.

I had also read that 10.2 fixed some issues with booting the prelaunch for the first time.

If what you're saying is correct, I should uninstall and try again by unchecking the "launch the admin console" at the end of the installer, reboot, and then try the prelaunch.

Edited November 22, 201015 yr by Guest