Mapserver Setup Problems, Any Suggestions?

[Trevor Penney]

I would also like to have the PHP/Mapscript as well. I am hoping to do some
development with CartoWeb.

> You should still be able to use FGS even if you don't use their bundled
> apache.  But you will need to do a bit of additional work to setup your
> apache so that it can use the FGS stuff.  Mostly adding the FGS lib
> directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in apache.conf, and likely some php
> magic.

To do this would the best method be to install all of the seperate FGS Modules
or would you install the full FGS and then move it to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in
apache.conf? What else would need to be done, what sort of PHP magic?

Thanks for any input.

Trevor Penney

> On 8/8/05, Trevor Penney <Trevor.Penney at novageomatics.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am having some problems with setting up mapserver, any suggestions 
>> would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Basically I want to install mapserver. I have root access and Fedora Core 2.
>> However, I can't use gcc to compile the mapserver from source, and
>> unfortunately FGS isn't an option because I can't run more than 1 
>> http.d, due
>> for server reasons. Any suggestions on a work around, such as an RPM or
>> something?
>
> Trevor,
>
> You should still be able to use FGS even if you don't use their bundled
> apache.  But you will need to do a bit of additional work to setup your
> apache so that it can use the FGS stuff.  Mostly adding the FGS lib
> directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in apache.conf, and likely some php
> magic.
>
> Are you looking to use PHP or just MapServer in cgi mode?   If you
> just need cgi, you could use FWTools which includes MapServer.
> On my server use FWTools and I just drop a small wrapper script
> in my cgi-bin directory to invoke it looking like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> . /opt/FWTools-linux-0.9.6/fwtools_env.sh
> exec /opt/FWTools-linux-0.9.6/bin/mapserv "$*"
>
> The fwtools_env.sh script sets up the environment so I don't have to
> fiddle with the apache.conf directly.
>
> There are also rpms for Fedora available at:
>
>  http://mappinghacks.com/rpm/
>
> Best regards,
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