[FX.php List] installation problems Mac OS 10.4.6

[Gail Kampmeier]

I am a newbie to this list, to php in general, and FX.php in 
particular.  I keep telling myself that this stuff shouldn't be so 
hard to figure out, but frustration has led me to finally ask for 
help on what is probably obvious to everyone else... <:-|

I am using FMSA 8.02's developer version sent with a limited license 
to develop and test my efforts in bringing multiple databases that 
I've been hosting in FMS to the web.  I am using it all (database and 
web serving*) on a laptop running Mac OS 10.4.6 that I am accessing 
as localhost (personal websharing on) and not currently connecting to 
the internet.  This will not be the production server in the long run.

*In Chris' Readme, he states that it was important not to run both 
FMP and the webserver from the same IP on early (10.0) Mac OS X, as 
it caused a kernel panic for him, but I thought this was probably now 
old news with later Mac OS' and FMSA 7 and 8??? unless there is 
something special about the FX.php and doing this--no kernel panics 
yet for me (tok tok [on wood])

I read with interest the post by Derrick Fogle of Apr 10th that he 
had copied the FX folder to /Library/Webserver/Documents/  --for 
those of you writing documentation, this was the first time I 
understood that this was considered the "root" of my webserver (Mac 
Help was no help either).

Anyway, I don't get the type of error message that Derrick got, but I 
do get the message that no records were found, and the Show all... 
button returns the same message.  I have confirmed with FMS Admin 
that the database, Book_List.fp7, is there and open in the Server 
Data space.  I had gone into the get info for the file and changed 
the groups to "fsadmin" and Read/Write before moving the file to 
FMS's Data space. I gave the [full access] a password, leaving 
"Admin" as the username; confirmed that the access privileges 
included fmxml.

My server_data.php file has the following between the php tags:

$serverIP = '127.0.0.1';
$webCompanionPort = 80;
$dataSourceType = 'FMPro7';
$webUN = 'fmsadmin';
$webPW = 'web1access2';
$scheme = 'http';

and I am not sure what the $webUN and $webPW should match, because 
changing them to Admin and test (the full access UN and PW that I 
designated for Book_List.fp7 for my purposes) did not work; obviously 
there is something fundamental I am missing, and I would appreciate 
before my head gets dented further from beating it against the wall 
;-), if someone would please point out where I am going wrong.  It is 
likely that the UN and PW here are holdovers from the Ultimate Guide 
to FileMaker and PHP (from FMWebschool), but without knowing where 
these should be coming from, I don't know how to correct them.

In short (OK, not so short ;-)), any help would be appreciated.

Cheers!
Gail
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