Tag: server

Creating Your Own SSL Certificates For FileMaker

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, FileMaker 16, Security, Server Administration

Typically, you buy an SSL certificate for a server from a SSL vendor. However, some companies may decide that they want to issue their own SSL certificates. Often this is because the domain is only used internally, and most vendors don’t easily allow (if at all) the signing of server certificates for non-public domains. Additionally, issuing your own certificates can remove complications caused by the certificate verification process used by most vendors, and there are no fees needed for each certificate.

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Using hostname for wiki with OSX Server

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, Server Administration

We have a wiki server running Mac OS X Server 10.6, and rather than have users type something like this:

http://bbox.beezwax.net/groups/bbox

which would be the standard URL, we instead wanted to use the much simpler:

http://bbox.beezwax.net/

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Stop FileMaker server from script

by Simon Brown
Posted in All, FileMaker, Techniques

If you have a FileMaker system and you need to script the processing of adding or removing files on the server, the first problem you are going to come across is: how do I stop the server from a script?

You may already be familiar with the fmsadmin command. This is present on both Mac OS and Windows installs of FileMaker server. You can simply run the following command in Terminal to stop the server:

fmsadmin stop server

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