Configuring Admin Console

  1. On the Admin Console Sign In page, enter your user name and password, then click Sign In.

  2. On the Admin Console Configuration > SSL Certificate page, decide whether to import an SSL certificate.

    Because data security is important, you are asked to import an SSL certificate when you first open Admin Console.

    • If you have a custom SSL certificate to import, follow the instructions to import the SSL certificate.

    • If you don't have a custom SSL certificate to import, close Admin Console and request a custom SSL certificate from a trusted CA, or continue without importing an SSL certificate. (Open Admin Console and click the Configuration > SSL Certificate tab to import a custom SSL certificate later.)

  3. On the Admin Console Configuration > SSL Certificate page, decide whether to use a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

    Follow the instructions to automatically set up a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.

  4. Decide whether to install Let's Encrypt on a secondary machine. See CLI Help.

  5. If you want to allow technologies such as FileMaker WebDirect, FileMaker Data API, OData, and ODBC and JDBC to access hosted databases, enable settings on the Connectors tab in Admin Console.

    For Enable

    FileMaker WebDirect

    Web Publishing

    FileMaker Data API

    FileMaker Data API

    OData

    OData

    ODBC and JDBC

    ODBC / JDBC

    See FileMaker Server Help.

Notes 

  • You can configure Admin Console using the FileMaker Server CLI or the Admin API. See CLI Help and FileMaker Admin API Guide.

  • You can change your user name and password in Admin Console or on the Linux CLI. See Changing user credentials.

  • To use Let's Encrypt, the domain name must be publicly accessible through port 80 during HTTP validation. Wildcards are not supported.