I have used Webstar 4.x together with FileMaker Pro and MacOS 9 for years without any problems. I use it in the way that I place an alias named FMPro pointing to the File Maker Pro application in the folder that is accessed. Thus all requests go through W*, which gives me all the benefits of virtual hosting, up- and downloads, applets, etc. Requests like /FMPro?... are handed over to FileMaker, i.e.the web compagnion and handled properly by that.
Now, this method cannnot directly be implemented on MacOS X, since W* must know which event to generate, so therefore I have defined the following CGI settings:
<PlugIn name="WebSTAR CGI">
<Permissions>
<Folder type="any" allow="yes"/>
<Folder type="local" allow="yes"/>
<Folder type="global" allow="yes"/>
<CGI type="appleevents" allow="yes"/>
<CGI type="ncsa" allow="yes"/>
</Permissions>
<Actions>
<Action name="Unix CGI" matchType="ends_with" matchStr=".cgi" type="ncsa" path=""/>
<Action name="AE CGI" matchType="ends_with" matchStr=".acgi" type="appleevents" path=""/>
<Action name="Perl Scripts" matchType="ends_with" matchStr=".pl" type="ncsa" path=""/>
<Action name="PHP" matchType="ends_with" matchStr=".php" type="ncsa" path="/cgi-bin/php"/>
<Action name="FileMaker" matchType="begins_with" matchStr="/FMPro" type="appleevents" path="/FileMaker/FileMaker Pro"/>
<Action name="Test" matchType="begins_with" matchStr="/test" type="appleevents" path="/FileMaker/test acgi"/>
</Actions>
</PlugIn>
The bad thing is that I get the following error, when I try to access ../FMPro?...:
The desired file was not found. Please try the index page.
The problem is now
1) is this a simple mis-configuration,
2) are WebStar V missing features, that was present in WebStar 4.x, or
3) is FileMaker 5.5 missing something in its interface in MacOS X? In MacOS 9 it obviously must have been able to cope with the appleevent on handle CGI request !
Any suggestions?
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