There are many great things to say about the FileMaker Cloud and we think this is a very important and great addition to our platform. One thing we must realize is that what we have now is a 1.0 release, which means that there can be some “rough edges” that needs to be polished in future releases. One such edge is the process of renewing the SSL certificate, that your FileMaker Cloud instance is installed with. (you get 90 days free) Frankly, the process is very complex, even for seasoned developers and server admins and involve several terminal commands.
Wouldn’t it be great, if there was an app for that ?
That’s what we thought, so we have created a FileMaker Custom App, that helps you with the process of renewing your FileMaker Cloud SSL Certificate. Not only is this app completely free, it is also completely open source. And you can download it below.
Now, how do I use this tool ?
I’m glad you asked. Richard Carlton and Claus Lavendt did a video on this topic, where we are walking through the tool and explains the process. Beside a walkthrough of the tool, we also discuss the concepts behind and we think this video is worth a watch.
Richard Carlton Consulting is producing awesome videos for the community as well as several video courses for everyone that wants to learn FileMaker. Check out their offerings at www.learningfilemaker.com
Claus Lavendt is Senior Consultant and owner of DataManix. We are leading FileMaker experts and beside creating great custom solutions for our customers, we have a deep passion for our platform. We also consult for our colleagues in the community and is among the top experts on FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go and several other areas of our platform. If you need help with your server, you can contact us. We also have a Managed FileMaker Server service, where we can take care of your server, so you can focus on creating great apps for your users. www.datamanix.com
PLEASE NOTE: We have found a bug in the tool. If you already downloaded this tool, please download this new version 1.3.0 and follow these instructions:
1) Open the tool, use the slide panel dots to navigate to the second panel (step 1). Fill out your Instance URL 2) Make sure you still have the working folder in your Documents folder: /Documents/FMC_SSL/ 3) Navigate to the second last slide panel, using the slide panel dots 4) Follow the instructions in step 5 and press the button “OK – I have done that” 5) Now the tool concatenate the 2 files from Comodo and you can now re-import the certificate file into your FileMaker Cloud instance.
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http://www.datamanix.comToday DataManix launches a new Managed FM Server service, that is designed to help you with managing your FileMaker Server, whether it is FileMaker Cloud, Hosted FileMaker server or your on-premises FileMaker Server.
In other words, we take care of your server, so you can focus on creating awesome FileMaker solutions.
How does it work ?
Based on your needs, we will install, configure and deploy a FileMaker Server, either a FileMaker Cloud server, a hosted FileMaker Server or an on-premises FileMaker server.
We will setup monitoring of your server and will respond to issues fast and start remedy the problem as soon as possibly.
We can provide off-site backups, so we are able to perform disaster recovery in worst case scenarios.
If you need high availability we can setup a clustering of FileMaker Servers so you always have access to your data, even if one server fails.
In other words, we can help with you with all kinds of FileMaker Server deployment.
Pricing
The price consist of a setup fee, based on the type of deployment you choose and a monthly fee for the ongoing monitoring and management. For issues remedy, we will invoice you for the hours spent. Invoicing for server usage can be done through us or directly to you, based on your choice of deployment.
FileMaker licensing
We are FBA Resellers so we can also help you with all your FileMake licensing needs.
FileMaker development and consultancy
We are a FileMaker FBA Platinum Partner company and can help you with your solutions, both with elements or by developing a custom solution that fits your needs. With more than 20 years of experience building custom solutions for all types of companies, you will benefit from our extensive skill sets.
How to get started ?
Contact us today and let’s have a discussion about your needs. Based on that, we will give you a recommendation and a price. www.datamanix.com – mail@datamanix.com
By popular demand, we have updated our Virtual Host guide and tool for FileMaker Server 13+ on Mac. The new guide will work with FileMaker Server 13.0v5 and higher. There are several new tips and tricks included in the “goodies” section. The new tool is now completely unlocked and does not use plugin anymore. Also new in this version is support for SSL.
This is the original description:
With FileMaker Server 13 we got a lot of great new stuff. However, the installation of FMS13 will take over the Apache webserver on a Mac OSX server, which will prevent you from using the built-in web tools in Mac OSX ServerAdmin. Many people will have a need to be able to create virtual hosts for especially CWP solutions. Please be aware that FMI strongly advice you to only use a dedicated machine for FMS.
As FMS13 takes over the Apache settings, there is no native way to configure Virtual Hosts, using GUI tools on Mac OS X. Due to this change, I have created a guide, with an accompanion FileMaker solution, that gives you the ability to configure Virtual Hosts. It can be used for a lot of things and also give you the ability to e.g. create an alias, that takes the user directly to a WD solution, without showing the WD homepage. e.g. www.mycompany.com/wd can take the user directly to the WebDirect solution. It is also possibly to specify the web folder path, so it can e.g. be stored on another hard drive.
Using this guide, you can make the setup within 10 min.
In this version, SSL sites is not supported. This is due to some heavy re-write rules in the configuration, which I have not been able to find an easy way around yet. Feedback is greatly apprechiated, both here and via email.
This guide is not official supported by FMI, so any use is on your own risk.
Please provide your name and email address for your free* download.
Free means “Yes please, I´d like to receive up to four mails a year
with relevant information about TheBrainBasket universe.”
Distributed as-is; no warranty is given.Use of the material is at your own responsibility. If you use techniques from our solutions, you are welcome to credit DataManix (optional of course). Free means “Yes please, I´d like to receive up to four mails a year with relevant information about TheBrainBasket universe.” Your information stays with us!
We have created a naming conventions document in collaboration with our great colleagues at SquareMoon Industries.
The way these conventions sets themselves apart from many others, is that they are meant to be limited to a few rules and mostly guidelines. This should make it more easy to follow and not lock the developer into a very specific way of developing.
We publish these conventions to the community in the hope that others would like to adopt them. The more, who adopt, the easier it will be for new developers to get into FileMaker development and the easier it will be for us to collaborate on projects.
The conventions will evolve over time, so please check back later to see if we have made any updates.
If you are digging into DevCon2Go16 for the international FileMaker Developer Conference or any of the european conferences, these conventions was used to create this app.
Please provide your name and email address for your free download.
Please provide your name and email address for your free* download.
Free means “Yes please, I´d like to receive up to four mails a year
with relevant information about TheBrainBasket universe.”
Distributed as-is; no warranty is given.Use of the material is at your own responsibility. If you use techniques from our solutions, you are welcome to credit DataManix (optional of course). Free means “Yes please, I´d like to receive up to four mails a year with relevant information about TheBrainBasket universe.” Your information stays with us!
If you want to want to get more great content, tips&tricks, be sure to follow @DataManix at twitter, linkedin or facebook for announcements. Also, look out for upcoming announcements on updated examples and our new blog site.
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There are several great things to say about the new release.
One thing that is very interesting, is the changes made to FileMaker Server 15 and SSL certificates. We now have a better and easier way to install certificates, using the FileMaker Server Admin Console. Not only that, but now there is support for more certificate. Most interesting is the support for wildcard and SAN certificates and intermediate certificates.
Want to know more about what this is all about ?
Richard Carlton and Claus Lavendt has created a video that explains all about the new way to install certificates. We also talk about the principles of DNS and SSL. Watch the video, that Richard Carlton and his team has put together below.
Also take a look at their great site; learningfilemaker.com – where you can get great content and learn all about developing FileMaker.
You can ask questions and add comments below, where we will do our best to provide answers about this exciting area of FileMaker Server 15.
