[Nhcoll-l] FileMaker Server 18 and Mac OS Catalina; anyone know solution?

[Doug Yanega]

Hi, all. As part of plans to be able to work remotely on our 
collection's database, we just upgraded to FMS 18, which also 
necessitated an upgrade to Mac OS Catalina. The problem is that FMS 18 
will evidently not install on Catalina, and instead gives warnings that 
it cannot install while Apache is running. After literally hours on the 
phone with both technical help from Claris and from Apple, neither party 
has an answer that allows for a proper installation. A few hits online 
indicated that this is a known bug, and not unique to this version of 
either FMS or of the Mac OS, but did not give clear solutions.

e.g.:

https://community.filemaker.com/en/s/question/0D50H00006qwaSg/i-cant-install-fms-18-before-the-installation-even-starts-i-receive-an-error-message-titled-apache-is-running

What I am hoping for is that some people in our community have 
encountered this exact problem, and found a reasonably practical 
solution to it, that they would be willing to share. I'm looking for 
*known* solutions at this point, not guesses and speculation; the 
putatively knowledgeable people at Claris and Apple had plenty of these, 
and none of their guesses panned out. What is especially baffling is 
that when I mentioned to them that there were online discussions 
regarding this bug, they both said they were prohibited by their 
respective employers from ever looking at public forums like these, so 
techs at both firms apparently live in almost complete ignorance of the 
end-user fallout from their bugs, even though these forums are 
ostensibly approved by the same firms.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can help,

-- 
Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology       Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314     skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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