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In this movie, we're going to take a look at where the various elements of FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced reside once they're installed on the hard drive of the server. This is important information to know because you may need to, at some point in time, go in and adjust some of this information or access it for configuration and administration purposes. Additionally, in later movies we'll be talking about putting certain elements in portions of these directories, so it's a good idea to know where we are. To some degree these elements appear according to the configuration option that we selected; the all on one, each on own, two in one or one in two, but there are some standard elements that appear in pretty much every installation, especially on the master machine. First, it's important to note that FileMaker Server needs to be installed on the OS boot drive when you're running OS X Server and then all of the parts for FileMaker Server in a particular installation on the master server are going to appear at the root level, not at the user level in the library. So in the root-level library you'll see a folder, FileMaker Server. So we'll open that up and we'll see many elements there. We see a data directory, a database server directory, a logs directory, an examples directory, a documentation directory and a Web Publishing directory, which contains the Web Publishing engine and the Web Publishing core and the elements in that Web Publishing core are inside an OS X package that we have to open up to look at them further and momentarily we'll take a look at that. But let's examine four key directories: the data directory, the log directory, the database server directory and the Web Publishing directory. Here's the data directory and there are three elements in this data directory: the backups, which are the default backup location, the databases, which are being hosted and again, this is the default location. We will subsequently how we can install the databases in alternate location as well, and the scripts, which are basically the OS-level scripts. Now, let's look at the logs directory. We can open it up and here we see a variety of logs that are generated both by FileMaker Server database engine and by the Web Publishing engine and particularly, the event log, the stats log and the access log are exceptionally important for troubleshooting and analysis of server activities. Again, all of these logs are found in the Logs directory and subsequently we'll see how to enable them and also how to interpret them. Now, we also have the database server directory and the important thing here is this extensions directory, which is where we can put server-side plug-ins. FileMaker Server automatically installs some of the XDBC plug-ins that are necessary for ODBC and JDBC, but this is where server-side plug-ins can be installed by administrators and developers. Again, this is in the extensions subdirectory in the database server directory. Finally, we have the Web Publishing directory, which contains a number of pieces of information including the default installation for a zipped copy of the FileMaker API for PHP, which is new in version 9. We also have, in the Publishing Engine subdirectory, a further subdirectory, the WPC, the Web Publishing core and if we right click on this and tell it to show package contents, that information will be exposed and particularly in this resources folder here are a number of items related to Instant Web Publishing that administrators can configure and customize. So again, this is in the exposed package contents from the Web Publishing core in the Publishing Engine subdirectory inside of the Web Publishing directory. So let's review what we've learned in this particular movie about the placement of various elements after an installation of FileMaker Server 9 or FileMaker Server 9 Advanced on an OS X server. We've learned that it's important to note where this information is in the root-level library, not the user library. We've learned that in a number of instances, we may need to go in and access this information or perhaps make custom configurations. We've learned about four critical directories: the data directory, the logs directory, the database server directory and the Web Publishing directory. There's extensive documentation that comes with FileMaker Server that covers many of these elements in greater detail and you and or your IT administrators may want to refer to that information. e documentation that comes with FileMaker Server that covers many of these elements in greater detail and you and or your IT administrators may want to refer to that information.