IWP Hosting behind standard home router

     Er DavidAnders, if you reread my post, clearly I have all the information you are talking about and that is not the issue.

     Filemaker suggests using port 591 instead of the default port 80 on a router and port 80 is not fordwarded to anything.  Having set port fordwarding on the router I still can't see the filemaker database via a browser.  Possibly the port forwarding is incorrectly set, but even if I attempt the connection from the host machine via a browser I get met with control panel requesting user name and password and then saying the info has to be sent in unsecure manner., so question is,

     1. how do I ensure the port fordwarding has been correctly set.

     2. is there a way of specifying the security level needed to sign into the filemaker database.

     3. Specifying my ip in the browser e.g. http://123.123.23.23:591/ I cannot make a connection.

     Any suggestions would be appreciated.  What have I missed?

     Managed to work it all out.

     Error 1 - I had, was the SPI on router was ENABLED, thereby blocking all Virtual Server traffic.  Once this was disabled, connection to teh database via a web browser was possible.

     Error 2 - IWP does not allow use of any THEME except CLASSIC, which is horrendous.

     So, question is - Who actually uses IWP and how to make it sexy?

     So basically, don't use it sems to be the general view.

     Therefore, why has it been put forward as a solution by Filemaker.  Surely it can't be as bad as it apepars, which is dreadful, as it essentially requires a complete rewrite or a cu dwon version to cheaply enable some Users access to data in a non-sexy way.