Enabling technologies for data sharing and web publishing
In this Deployment assistant step, you can do the following:
•Choose the technologies you want to use to publish your FileMaker databases to web users on the Internet or an intranet. You must enable this feature to use FileMaker Server Custom Web Publishing or
FileMaker WebDirect.
To enable the technologies for web publishing:
1. If you want your server to be a
data source via
ODBC and
JDBC, click
Yes, enable ODBC/JDBC to enable sharing or click
No, do not enable ODBC/JDBC to disable.
2. Click Yes, enable web publishing to publish FileMaker databases to web users or click No, do not enable web publishing.
3. Select the web publishing technologies that you want to use.
To | Select |
Quickly and easily publish FileMaker databases on the web that look and work much like they do in FileMaker Pro. | FileMaker WebDirect |
| FileMaker Data API |
Send HTTP requests along with XML query commands and parameters and retrieve FileMaker data as an XML document. | XML |
Access FileMaker data using the FileMaker API for PHP in PHP web applications. | PHP |
4. If you enable PHP publishing, choose whether to install the FileMaker supplied version of PHP.
To | Select |
Install FileMaker supplied PHP and the FileMaker API for PHP | Yes, install the FileMaker supported version of PHP If you already have PHP installed and choose to use the FileMaker supplied engine, your currently installed PHP engine will be disabled. |
Use your own installation of PHP | No, use my existing installation of the PHP engine |
5. Click Next to go to the next step.
Click Back to return to the previous step or Cancel to exit the Deployment assistant.
Notes
•You can change the web publishing technology settings in
Admin Console. However, you must use the Deployment assistant to change the PHP engine. See
Hosting PHP websites.
•If you enable the web publishing technologies, FileMaker recommends that you use SSL for database connections with a custom SSL certificate installed.
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