[FX.php List] Why not convert from CDML to fx.php?

[Dale Bengston]

Web Companion is a FileMaker extension. The FileMaker Web Server  
Connector (FM-WSC) is a separate install that connects one's web  
server (in my case Apache) to FMP. The FM-WSC was primarily intended  
to be a tool for implementing RAICs and load balancing, allowing a  
web server to communicate with more than one FMU logged into the same  
set of databases. The FM-WSC would round-robin contact its set of  
established FMUs, in a pretty-lame scheme for load balancing. If you  
didn't want FMU to be your web server, and have it sit behind a  
"real" web server like IIS or Apache, you had to use the FM-WSC to  
get it to work - even with one FMU (no load balancing).

One of the most attractive things about FX.PHP when I started using  
it in 2003 was, no FM-WSC necessary!

It behooves you to make sure you have the latest updater, even though  
that doesn't guarantee perpetual uptime, as John May points out. on  
the Mac, there is a separate updater for the Web Companion (6.0v3)  
and for FMU (6.0v4).

So, if you're using FMU, even with FX.PHP, you're using the Web  
Companion. The FM-WSC is an optional install. If you haven't  
installed it, and everything works, then you're off the hook.

Dale

On May 13, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> I have never seen the mention of "Web Connector" in combination  
> with FileMaker Pro 6 Unlimited, even though I started out using  
> FMP6UL to web publish fx.php before moving to FMP8SA. Both Mac.
>
> I do have a Web Companion and a Web Companion Enabler in the  
> Extensions folder of FMP6UL/Mac...but no Web Connector.
>
> Did Web Connector get retired in FMP6UL?
>
> J
>
>
> At 9:18 AM +1000 5/14/07, Kevin Futter wrote:
>>
>> That was our experience too, and we never bothered with the WSC.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Futter
>> Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
>> http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Schwartz
> Exit 445 Group
> jonathan at exit445.com
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