Dear List Members,
I recently was tasked with upgrading a small FileMaker/Lasso solution
to FileMaker 9/PHP on Leopard Server. The database has to run inside
a firewall, and I am trying to run PHP via the Web Publishing Engine
on a web server outside the firewall. I installed FileMaker 9 on the
worker machine (web server) first, and then on the master machine
(database server). I cannot seem to get the PHP test page to function
properly. It gives me the unhelpful error:
"The PHP connection to the FMServer_Sample database failed.
This Web Publishing Engine already has too many active sessions. Using
FileMaker Server Admin, increase the number of Web Publishing Engine
sessions, disconnect an active session, or wait a while for more
sessions to become available. (Error 956; Maximum number of database
sessions exceeded)"
There's only one connection to the WPE, and the preference is set to
100 maximum sessions, so I don't know why I'm getting this error.
I am pretty sure the issue has something to do with the network
connection and/or firewall between the two machines, because when I
install it all on one machine, it works correctly. I am able to
telnet to all the ports that need to be opened on each of the two
machines. Here are the ports that we opened:
Database Machine:
5003, 16000, 16001, 16016, 2399, 50003, 50006
Web Server Machine:
5003, 16000, 16004-16018
Unless there are still ports need to be opened, I have boiled the
issue down to a possible DNS resolution issue from the web server to
the database machine. The web server is not able to connect to the
database server by domain name via telnet, but can do that via IP
address.
Which brings me to my big question: Is it possible for the Web
Publishing Engine to connect to FileMaker Server on the master machine
via IP address instead of domain name, and if so, where can I find
this preference/setting? Is it in one of the configuration files
somewhere?
I thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide!
- Deepali
-----------------------
Deepali Gokhale
infoCypher Data Consulting, LLC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
