RESTfm

RESTful Web Services for FileMaker Server

RESTfm turns a FileMaker Server into a RESTful Web Service, so you can access your FileMaker Server databases via HTTP using a common REST architecture with easy to understand API calls.

Website: http://restfm.com/

RESTfm Installation and Programming Interface Manual: http://restfm.com/manual

RESTfm is Copyright (c) 2011-2017 Goya Pty Ltd, and is licensed under The MIT License. For full copyright and license information, please see the LICENSE file distributed with this package.

Download

Officially packaged releases are the quickest way to start, are available in tar and zip formats, and may be downloaded from the "releases" link at the top of the github repository: https://github.com/GoyaPtyLtd/RESTfm/releases

Note: The officially packaged releases are called RESTfm-{version}.zip and RESTfm-{version}.tgz. (Please don't be confused by the links to "Source code" that GitHub always includes. "Source code" has not gone through the "build" process, and requires additional configuration to get working.)

Installation

The installation process is described in the online RESTfm manual: http://www.restfm.com/restfm-manual/install

Support

Product support is available via paid sponsorship: http://restfm.com/help

Using the master branch of RESTfm from GitHub.

The master branch hosted on GitHub is considered stable, and packaged releases are built from this branch at intervals. With a little extra configuration, it is possible to run RESTfm directly from a git repository clone.

Installation

Prerequisites

• A webserver (Apache >= 2.2, or IIS >= 7.0) with write access to the document directory.
• FileMaker Server 11 or above is required, but does not need to reside on the same machine as RESTfm.
• PHP version 5.3 or above.
• If running Apache, configure with AllowOverride All for the RESTfm directory so that .htaccess functions correctly.

Setup example suitable for OS X/Linux

cd /<your web doc dir>
git clone https://github.com/GoyaPtyLtd/RESTfm.git
cd RESTfm
cp RESTfm.ini.php.dist RESTfm.ini.php
cp .htaccess.dist .htaccess
cp -a FileMaker.dist FileMaker

• When setting up on IIS, also ensure web.config.dist is copied to web.config
• Use a browser to see if RESTfm needs further configuration: http://example.com/RESTfm/report.php
• Refer to the RESTfm manual for further configuration information: http://restfm.com/manual

Bugs

Bug reports are welcome via the GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/GoyaPtyLtd/RESTfm/issues