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

[Dean Pentcheff]

This is only indirectly useful, but: we have successfully installed (and
are running) FMS on Mojave. We didn't have any trace of the "Apache
running" bug you mention.

Note though, that we don't use the web services of FMS, but they were at
least partially turned on during install (I recall disabling them after the
install), so I suspect Mojave+FMS doesn't trigger the problem.

-Dean
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:58 PM Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:

> 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,
>
> --
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