[FX.php List] Config problem

[Andrew Denman]

The short answer: yes.

Wherever you have the WPE installed, you need a web server installed and running.

Andrew Denman

From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Bob Patin
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 11:36 AM
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Config problem



They need to be open if the WPE is on the separate web server machine, but according to your description it is on the FileMaker machine (i.e.: 1 machine install).

Well, it's *sort of* a 1-machine install, in that the web server is on a 2nd machine.

So if I'm hearing you right, to do what they want to do, they need to have a web server running on their FM machine... I spoke to their tech yesterday, and he said he could put a web server there, and then re-install FMSA and do a single-machine install for me, which puts PHP and does all the proper connecting.

Sounds like, from what you're saying, that since the FMSA machine needs a web server *anyway,* we might as well use it for the web app, since this app will only be used during their convention, for about a week or so.

Am I hearing you right that the FMSA machine needs to have a web server running on it, whether it's used or not?

Thanks,

BP




The confusion here may be with the 'web server'.  WPE requires a web server to serve the FileMaker XML, so when you do a one machine install it does require a web server on that machine.  That does not mean you have to use that computer for the website.  You can use a completely separate web server without any FileMaker parts on it and just point FX.php to the one machine install. In this scenario the only thing the standalone web server is using to communicate with the WPE is cURL on the web (port 80).

Are there any FileMaker server parts installed on the 'machine 2' web server?

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