FileMaker Pro 4.1 Mac User's Guide

Chapter 11: Publishing files on the Web
About the World Wide Web
With FileMaker Pro 4.0, you can publish your database on the World
Wide Web—without any additional software—using FileMaker Pro
Web Companion and your Internet access. Your file can be viewed,
edited, sorted, and searched by anyone who has Web browser software
and access to the Internet. You can also choose how much or how little
access users have to your files.
This chapter explains what you need to do to publish your databases on
the Web.
The Internet is a network of computers joined by data lines that
communicate using common software standards. The World Wide Web
is part of the Internet.
In the most basic sense, the World Wide Web is a very large collection
of documents, or pages, stored on computers around the world called
World Wide Web servers. Each computer connecting to the Internet has
a unique address, called an IP (Internet protocol) address. Web pages
travel from one IP address to another—first a Web browser requests
specific Web pages, then the Web server delivers the requested page to
the Web browser.