Please Help: Lasso, what else?

[Krishan]

Hi Lasso experts... and everyone else!

I've been converting all my CDML to LDML using BBEdit's Lasso Tag Converter and the LDML 3.6.6 Reference DB. But - unsurprisingly - I am having some problems! I'd be grateful if anyone could help me out.

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John May - Point In Space said:

If you're running Filemaker and Lasso Web Server on the same machine you're accessing it from, it's going to be slow because everything's in the background.

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I'm using a single computer network using appletalk and I'm finding it extremely slow. It takes nearly 10-15 seconds for pages to appear. How would I create a network so that I can use two computers next to each other (one for serving and one for accessing)? Is there anything that I can do on WebStar to make things faster? I'm just using an iMac G3 400Mhz but I would like to network two of them together to test out my site.

Also....

I have a member's login page. I use the following code:

code:

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<form action="action.lasso" method="post" name="loginform">

<input type="hidden" name="-database" value="Users.fp5">

<input type="hidden" name="-response" value="userhome.lasso">

<input type="hidden" name="-AnyError" value="login.lasso">

<input type="hidden" name="Active" value="yes">

Member Name:

<input type="hidden" name="-Operator" value="equals">

<input type="text" name="UserName" size="30">

Password:

<input type="hidden" name="-Operator" value="equals">

<input type="password" name="Password" size="30">

<input type="submit" name="-search" value="Sign In">

</form>

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But I want the User to only view records which have Active(= "yes") AND UserName AND Password. I think at the moment it allows you to leave the input fields blank and it'll find the first record that has the Active field as "yes". How do I create a proper member login form?

Please help me if you can..... thanks for all your help!

[John May - Point In Space]

Well, for the first one - are you making sure to have WebStar or Lasso Server as the front-most app on the server computer? Also be sure to use the FMRemote and not FMDatasource plug-in with Lasso.

- John

[Krishan]

Hey John,

WebStar or Lasso Server are not the front-most app on the server computer because I'm using the same computer to test it with my browser. How would I set up an appletalk network to make one a server and the other a client? I'm not sure what the FMRemote and the FMDatasource plug-ins for Lasso actually do... I'm going to have to read the manual.

In FileMaker, there are three plug-ins to choose from: Local Access Data Companion, Remote Data Access Companion and Web Companion. If I'm using Lasso, which do I select? I just have Web Companion selected at the moment. There are security flaws with Web Companion but if you block the Web Companion port does that stop people taking advantages of the security flaws?

Thanks.....

[John May - Point In Space]

Krishan -

To set up one machine as a server and one as a client, you'd need to set up a local TCP/IP network - an Appletalk network won't cut it. You can use software like IPNetRouter or Vicom Internet Gateway, or a hardware router if you want your local network to then share your internet connection as well.

With Filemaker, you'd want to use the Web Companion access plug-in, then use Lasso's FMRemote module to connect to it. You assign a username/password for Web Companion, which Lasso then uses to access it - this solves the security problems. You can also change Web Companion to an esoteric port (other than 591), and specify IP-access-restrictions as well (in FM 5 only, 4 doesn't offer) for additional security.

- John