In this case, the copies of the SSL files that FileMaker makes in /Library/FileMaker Server/HTTPServer/conf were stale. At this point, Apache would now start normally, and the issue was resolved.įor another server recently, the execution of httpd ran cleanly, but still exited when done. So now I finally know what the issue is: due to a security issue, SSL compression in Apache was completely removed by an OS update, so I need to disable or remove line 78. Line 78 of nf had this in it: SSLCompression off

Setting Compression mode unsupported not implemented by the SSL library mod_so.c(266): AH01575: loaded module version_module from /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_version.soĪH00526: Syntax error on line 78 of /Library/FileMaker Server/HTTPServer/conf/extra/nf: mod_so.c(266): AH01575: loaded module alias_module from /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so The first part was all normal, but near the end I got some useful output: mod_so.c(266): AH01575: loaded module access_compat_module from /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_access_compat.so On a server recently, I got the output below. Using PKI authentication for FileMaker Server Admin API calls Running FileMaker Server in a Docker container for Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrading FileMaker Server to 19.5.1 and Ubuntu to 20. Now we can start up Apache using the same command as FMS, except that we’ll increase the logging level: /usr/sbin/httpd -e debug -k start -D FILEMAKER -f '$HTTP_ROOT/conf/$HTTPD_CONF' HTTP_ROOT='/Library/FileMaker Server/HTTPServer' Then paste the following into your Terminal window: HTTPD_CONF=nf We can use that to determine the needed environment variables and the command to run.įirst, you’ll want to be in the Terminal as root, so type: sudo -s If you check on the startup process, you’ll eventually end up at the script at /Library/FileMaker Server/HTTPServer/bin/httpdctl. This new arrangement has reduced issues for FileMaker Server’s web connectivity.īut updates or other changes can still cause the httpd process to fail to start up, and all you’ll see is something like this in the system log: Jan 18 13:13:14 myservername (): Service exited with abnormal code: 1 Because of this, the technique I mentioned here no longer works for newer systems. FileMaker Server Admin Console is accessed through a web browser from a machine that has network access to FileMaker Server 14. Use the latest version of PHP that FileMaker, Inc. Since FileMaker Server version 13, FMS has used its own Apache configuration files on macOS instead of just adding includes to the OS configuration files. FileMaker Server 14 installs what you need to use PHP including the PHP engine, the FileMaker API for PHP, and documentation.

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