About silent installations (macOS)

Important  If you choose to perform a silent installation, the installation screens do not display. However, you are still required to accept the terms that are stated on the installation screens. Specifically, if the End User License Agreement (EULA) screen will not be displayed, then in the Assisted Install.txt file, you are required to set License Accepted= to either 1 (yes) or 0 (no). The default value is 0. If you set License Accepted= to 1, this signifies your acceptance of the EULA text on the EULA screen.

Users can perform a silent installation using the Terminal application.

  1. Create the Assisted Install.txt file with your preferences, and place it in the same folder as the FileMaker Server installer. See Customize the personalization file.

  2. In the Terminal application, enter the macOS installer command:

    sudo installer -pkg FileMaker\ Server\ 20.pkg -target /

Important  FileMaker Server requires that ports 80 and 443 be available on the user's machine. If they are not available, the software will not install.