In this movie, we will look at the Installation Process for FileMaker Server and we will be using FileMaker Server Advanced. But the process for installing regular FileMaker Server is exactly the same except for two options. In the installation process for Server Advanced we have the option to enable Instant Web Publishing and enable ODBC and JDBC. Both of these options do not exist when you install regular FileMaker Server 12. The installation process is described in great detail with lots of screenshots in the "Getting Started Guide" that you can see on your screen here. And you'll find this guide in your Installation Folders and you can also download it from the FileMaker website. Before we get started you cannot install FileMaker Server on a machine that already has another copy of FileMaker Server installed. That is because FileMaker Server uses one hard wired port for it's data traffic. So two copies of FileMaker Server would generate conflicts as both would try and grab that same port. If you are going to install FileMaker Server 12 on a machine that already has FileMaker Server 11 or any previous version on it, then you will need to uninstall that old version first. Fortunately FileMaker Server 12 can use some of your old settings as part of the installation process if you have used FileMaker Server 11 Feature to save the groups and schedules. In any case make sure that you document all of your current settings and schedules before uninstalling. Also be careful uninstalling, make sure to backup and close the files first. And as a quick aside FileMaker Server 12 has a feature that does allow you to save important parts of your configuration for when you need to reinstall later. And we'll cover that in another movie. If you have a trial version of FileMaker Server installed and it has not expired yet then you can just submit the License Key and the trial will revert to a Full FileMaker Server. We'll cover that process in another movie too. If the trial has expired you will need to uninstall it first. And on Windows best practice is to copy all of your Installation Files from a CD if you have a CD over to a Network Share or to the FileMaker Server machine itself and install from there. That will save you having to find a CD and have it handy when FileMaker Server releases an update. And if you want to use Web Publishing make sure that a web server is running on the machine that you want to install it on. The FileMaker Server installation process will try and communicate with it. So let's go ahead and do the installation. Here we have our Windows 2008 Server 64-bit edition. And we've copied the FileMaker Server Installation Files to our machine so that we can just go ahead and run the setup. We'll just walk through the standard dialogs and agreeing to the license. And here we have to provide information on who we are and our License Key. This information has to match the information that you were given by FileMaker when you purchased license. So we'll go ahead and start the installation process. As you can see FileMaker Server is now installing some of the components that it needs before it can get to the real FileMaker Server installation. And those include Bonjour on Windows and also Java, the correct version if you don't have the Java Runtime environment installed on your machine yet. So it is installing Java right now and we'll also go ahead and install Bonjour and go through that process. And that's done so now the FileMaker Server Installer can continue with it's own task. So now the bits and pieces of FileMaker Server are installed. When that's done you will be asked if you want to start the Deployment Wizard. And this is where the different parts of FileMaker Server get enabled like ODBC, JDBC and all of the web publishing. So let's go ahead and do that.
| Course: | FileMaker Server 12 |
| Author: | Wim Decorte |
| SKU: | 34324 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-047-3 |
| Release Date: | 2012-06-22 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 84 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |