When setting up AppleShare IP Web Services in conjunction with a Filemaker Pro Web Companion database, administrators may run into a situation in which the two services prevent each other from operating as expected. The solution is to assign FileMaker Web Companion a different port than that which is typically reserved for http services.
Both Filemaker Pro Web Companion and AppleShare IP Web Services use TCP/IP port 80 by default. Therefore, you must assign a new port to Filemaker Pro. Although any unused port will suffice, your first choice should be port 591, as Filemaker, Inc. has registered this port with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for use with Web Companion. See Figure 1.
Both Filemaker Pro Web Companion and AppleShare IP Web Services use TCP/IP port 80 by default. Therefore, you must assign a new port to Filemaker Pro. Although any unused port will suffice, your first choice should be port 591, as Filemaker, Inc. has registered this port with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for use with Web Companion. See Figure 1.
Figure 1: FileMaker Pro Web Companion Configuration window.
After you have changed this port, the IP address by which the site can be accessed will now be followed by a colon and the port number. For example:
your.website.com:591
In order to save visitors to your site the inconvenience of having to type in the port number, you should then create an HTML document at the top of the website folder served by Filemaker Web Companion with a hyperlink to your database.