In particular this is a two machine install, where you’ve got an internal FileMaker Server, and you’re adding an external web server on a different network. This setup gives you a little more security ( by having the public facing web server outside your normal network ) with the advantage of the FileMaker Server inside the network for the maximum speed in serving to the FileMaker Pro clients. In our case we were using the Alternate configuration, which puts the Web Publishing Engine on the same box as the FileMaker Server. This setup means you don’t have any of the performance advantages of offloading processing from the FMS box, but suits our setup because the server is well suited to running both tasks and isn’t going to be a high load. So we can then use a quite low end web server and easily handle the traffic.Īlso note, that in our case, and in lots of situations like this, the FileMaker Server is on a private network behind a router, so you need to have port forwarding setup to map the external IP address to the internal FileMaker Server IP for ports 16000, 1608. All the details of this is in the pdf documentation that comes with FileMaker Server. When you run the deployment of FileMaker server, you’re asked for an IP address. You can actually use either ip or FQDN ( fully qualified domain name). From there communications from worker to master do some lookups ( domain to IP ) and some reverse lookups ( IP address back to domain ).
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