[FX.php List] Multiple WPE connections to a single FMSA machine?

[Bob Patin]

John,

What I was wondering was this:

When I spoke to the Fiilemaker person this afternoon, he told me that  
a FMSA license allows only one WPE connection to the FM server.  
However, the FM Admin clearly shows that multiple WPEs can connect,  
and I *thought* that was what you told me was possible.

But when I couldn't connect, I called FMI, and that's what they told me.

So I was wondering: how do you get 2 licenses into FM Server so that  
one FM Server machine can connect to 2 WPE installs on 2 different  
web servers?

I realize that the answer would be to just use one WPE and have both  
web servers use that one WPE; what I was trying to do was to have  
both web servers (my old one and my new one) both connected at the  
same time so that I could carefully move sites from the old server to  
the new one, without any loss of service.

But it looks now like I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and  
move all the PHP processes over to the new machine en masse, during  
which they'll be offline...

Thanks for your help,

Bob Patin
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On May 3, 2007, at 8:02 PM, John May wrote:

>> On 4/5/07 9:05 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Well, I found out the answer:
>>>
>>>  You can't use multiple WPE connections to one install of FMSA  
>>> unless
>>>  you have multiple liceenses.
>>>
>>>  The question I have though, is how you would install a 2nd license;
>>>  will FMSA allow you to install more than one license?
>>>
>>
>> Our goal was always to do it the other way round - one WPE talking to
>> multiple installs of FMSA. But we couldn't ever get that working  
>> either, and
>> to the best of knowledge you can't, despite the appearance of that
>> possibility. I'd love to know how if you can!
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Futter
>> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
>> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
>
> You cannot have one WPE talk to multiple FMS instances.
>
> 	- John
>
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