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The installation will look pretty much the same on Windows as on Mac, so we'll just go ahead and install it here on this Mac. One of the first big decisions that you'll need to make is whether to deploy FileMaker Server on one or on multiple machines. Multiple machines can be used to spread the load between the database server and the web publishing engine. If you're not going to use web publishing or if you're just installing FileMaker Server for testing, then the single machine installation is your choice. I wan to stress this. It's only when you expect a heavy load through web publishing that you gain any performance benefit from using more than one machine. If you choose multiple machines, you need to let the installer know what the role is for this particular machine. Master machine is the machine that has the database engine. A worker machine has either the web publishing engine in a three machine configuration or a web publishing engine and the web server module in a two machine setup. We'll just go ahead and do the single machine installation. And after we input our license information, the bits and pieces of FileMaker Server are getting installed. When everything is installed, you'll be asked if you want to start the deployment wizard. This is where the different parts of FileMaker Server get enabled, like ODBC and JDBC support and web publishing. So let's go ahead and do that. The first thing that we need to do is set up an admin user account and password. That's the account and password that will need to be used whenever someone wants to open the FileMaker Server Admin Console. Next comes the screen asking you some optional information about the FileMaker Server installation. And after that you can enable ODBC and JDBC but only if you have a FileMaker Server Advanced installation key. The next question is about enabling web publishing and that one is there for both regular FileMaker Server and FileMaker Server Advanced except that for Server Advanced you can also enable instant web publishing. Note the question about PHP. If you want to use PHP, you can let FileMaker install the supported version, which is 5.2.6 and use that. If you do it will disable any other running version of PHP on that machine. If you'd rather use your own pre-installed PHP engine, then you will have to manually install some FileMaker components for PHP. More about that in a movie dedicated to PHP. Now, this is where the installer will try and talk to our installed web server, Apache in this case. With all this information set, FileMaker Server finishes the installation process. And there we go. Next comes the work of properly configuring and tweaking all the FileMaker Server settings to meet your requirements. This can be done with the Admin Console from any workstation and we have separate movies for each of those preferences in this tutorial. After the installation, you will find FileMaker Server installs in the library FileMaker Server and all of its sub-folders. We'll talk about all of those folders in a later movie. On Windows you'll find the equivalent folders in the Program Files section of your hard disk.