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

[Erik Andreas Cayré]

Den 14/05/2007 kl. 4.17 skrev Jonathan Schwartz:

> Dale,
>
> THANK YOU for explaining that, because it addresses the eternal  
> mystery question of whether the Web Companion was providing the web  
> serving or another web server was (apache/IIS).
>
> In all my FMP6U/fx.php installations, I used Apache as a web  
> server. Everything worked fine.  You guys helped me through it back  
> in 2005. ;-)
>
> Then, I ran into a different account using FMP6UL/CDML (Mac) that  
> had no third party web server. Now I understand that the Web  
> Companion is providing the web serving.
>
> Back to the FileMaker Web Server Connector (FM-WSC) for this  
> problem client...
>
> - Platform is Windows.
> - FMPis FMP5.5UL
> - Using IIS as a web server
> - Using FMP-WSC.
> - Pages are in CDML.
>
> Based on this, do they NEED to use WSC?

Yes, as I understand Dales explanation...

To get rid of FMP-WSC you have two options:
1. Stop using IIS (use the Web Companion instead. *NOT* recommended)
2. Convert to PHP with FX.php (...recommended!)

> If they upgrade to FMP6UL, do they need to use WSC?

Yes, same choice

> Where the heck is the setting which determines if WSC on/off or in  
> the loop at all?

WSC is the software installed in the 3rd party webserver which talks  
to FMPU


/Erik

> Thx,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> At 8:40 PM -0500 5/13/07, Dale Bengston wrote:
>> 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
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