If you have the install software on your local computer, you can adjust a setting in the RDP file to have your local drive(s) show up in the remote session on the server. If you do, be sure to close the port (remove the rule from the Security Group) when you’ve finished - no point in having open ports if they’re not needed ongoing. If downloading from an FTP site, you may need to open different ports.

In addition, in setting up the Security Group in step 5 in the previous post, we did not enable web traffic (port 80) so you will need to go back and do this if you want to download the install file. However, Internet Explorer (the default browser on the server) is fairly locked down and will prompt you numerous times to ask if what you’re trying to do is safe, and you may need to add the site you’re downloading from to the Trusted Sites list. If you have a download link for the software then you can use this. There’s a more than couple of ways of doing this but we’ll cover two: This post is not a full tutorial on installing and configuring FileMaker Server, but we do need to get our install file on to our new server so we can proceed with the installation.

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