mapscript installation on debian

Wed Aug 17 14:27:14 EDT 2005

I have been attempting to install Mapserver/php mapscript on debian sarge
for several days now with no luck.  When using the instructions given below,
I receive the following error when attempting to restart apache2:
 "Invalid command 'Action', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not
 included in the server configuration"
What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone provide some insight, advice, or perhaps
more updated instructions for completing this install?  I am interested in
using the apache module version of php for non-mapscript php pages, and the
cgi-version only as required by mapscript.

Thanks all.

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:43:32 -0500, James Cradock <jcradock at ME3.COM> wrote:

>This all assumes that Apache2 and PostgreSQL with PostgreSQL's
>libraries are installed. Also assumed: That you're running Debian Sarge
>("testing"). (Watch the line breaks!)
>
>Change to user root and bring APT up-to-date:
>
>apt-get update
>
>1. Supporting libraries:
>
>Install libraries to make MapServer useful -- many of these are
>documented on the UNIX installation page on MapServer's online
>documentation:
>
>apt-get install libgd2 libgd2-dev proj libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libtiff4
>libtiff4-dev libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev freetype2 libgdal1 libgdal1-dev
>
>2. PHP:
>
>PHP must be run as a CGI and it must be configured and built with
>system regular expressions. This install of PHP will give you PHP as a
>CGI with system regex wihout clobbering mod_php (if it's installed)
>with its built-in regex -- note that I'm installing the PHP I want to
>use with MapServer in /usr/local/php_for_mapserver-4.3.10 and that I'm
>symlinking it to make upgrading PHP easier:
>
>cd /usr/local/src
>apt-get source php4-cgi
>cd php4-4.3.10
>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php_for_mapserver-4.3.10 --enable-dbase
>--with-jpeg=/usr --with-tiff=/usr --with-gd=/usr --with-png=/usr
>--with-freetype --with-zlib --with-regex=system
>make
>make install
>cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/php_for_mapserver-4.3.10/lib/php.ini
>cd /usr/local
>ln -s php_for_mapserver-4.3.10 php_for_mapserver
>
>Setup Apache to execute all *.phtml as PHP CGI. First edit
>/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default (or whatever your default
>configuration is):
>
><Directory "/var/www/mapserver">
>    AddType application/x-httpd-php-cgi .phtml
>    Action application/x-httpd-php-cgi /cgi-bin/php
></Directory>
>
>Then add this shell script, called "php", to the /usr/lib/cgi-bin
>directory:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
>export SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
>/usr/local/php_for_mapserver/bin/php -c
>/usr/local/php_for_mapserver/etc/php.ini
>
>Make it executable:
>
>chmod 755 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php
>
>Make the "mapserver" directory:
>
>mkdir /var/www/mapserver
>
>And make a phpinfo.phtml file:
>
>echo "<?= phpinfo() ?>" > /var/www/mapserver/phpinfo.phtml
>
>If you restart Apache ("apache2ctl restart") and navigate to
>"http://127.0.0.1/mapserver/phpinfo.phtml" you'll see the output you'd
>otherwise see loading a page with phpinfo() with the *.php extension.
>
>3. MapServer:
>
>cd /usr/local/src
>wget http://cvs.gis.umn.edu/dist/mapserver-4.4.1.tar.gz
>tar -zxvf mapserver-4.4.1.tar.gz
>cd mapserver-4.4.1
>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mapserver-4.4.1 --with-jpeg
>--with-freetype=/usr/local --with-zlib --with-png --with-tiff
>--with-gd=/usr --with-proj=/usr --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config
>--with-wmsclient --with-php=/usr/local/php_for_mapserver
>--with-postgis=/usr/bin/pg_config --with-mygis=/usr/bin/mysql_config
>make
>make install
>
>"make install" will print this message to your terminal window:
>
>***** MapServer Installation *****
>To install MapServer, copy the 'mapserv' file to your web server's
>cgi-bin
>directory.
>If you use MapScript then see the documentation for your specific
>MapScript
>version for installation instructions.
>
>Copy "mapserv" to the CGI-BIB directory:
>
>cp mapserv /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv
>
>Enable PHP/MapScript:
>
>cd mapscript/php3
>mkdir /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429
>cp php_mapscript.so /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429/
>
>In /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php.ini set the extension_dir to
>/usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429/, enable the
>PHP/MapScript module:
>
>extension=php_mapscript.so
>
>And copy php_mapscript.so to the extensions directory:
>
>cp php_mapscript.so /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429/
>
>Now you don't need to load the module in your PHP script.
>
>Restart Apache and go again to
>"http://127.0.0.1/mapserver/phpinfo.phtml". You'll see a block for
>MapScript.
>
>4. Gotchas:
>
>* I've enabled MapServer and PHP/MapScript with support for MyGIS. You
>may need to install MySQL 4.1's client libraries:
>
>apt-get install libmysqlclient14 libmysqlclient14-dev
>
>* mod_action may need to be enabled in Apache. It's disabled in Debian
>by default:
>
>cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
>ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/actions.load .
>
>* Again, this all assumes that Apache2 and PostgreSQL with PostgreSQL's
>libraries are installed.
>
>I hope this helps. Let me know if I should make changes to these
>instructions.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jim
>
>On Mar 23, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Lehuta Juraj - OZ wrote:
>
>> Yes, it will be fayn,
>> thank you very much
>>
>> WochteR
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Cradock [mailto:jcradock at me3.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 4:15 PM
>> To: Lehuta Juraj - OZ
>> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] mapscript installation on debian
>>
>> I would install all the supporting software (apache2, proj, gdal, gd,
>> etc --
>> look at the MapServer UNIX installation docs) from APT and build PHP
>> (to run
>> as a CGI alongside mod_php) and MapServer from source. I've got an
>> utterly
>> straightforward installation recipe, including input for a gotcha or
>> two
>> I've gotten help with from this list, for Sarge, and I can send it to
>> you
>> later today and amend it to the Debian topic on the MapServer Wiki.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Mar 23, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Lehuta Juraj - OZ wrote:
>>
>>> yes,
>>> extension_dir /usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts /usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts
>>>
>>> and mapscript.so is realy in this directory
>>>
>>> my Debian is:
>>> sarge
>>> Linux mapserver 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:34:30 UTC 2004 i686
>>> GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> I installed mapserver and mapscript packages from deb
>>> http://agrogeomatic.educagri.fr/debian woody main
>>>
>>> by:
>>> apt-get install php-mapscript cgi-mapserver php4
>>>
>>> When I remove the mapscript.so from /usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts I
>>> obtain this:
>>> Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library
>>> '/usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts/php_mapscript.so' -
>>> /usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts/php_mapscript.so: cannot open shared object
>>> file:
>>> No such file or directory in /var/www/test.php on line 2
>>>
>>> ** cannot open shared object file***
>>>
>> -----
>> James Cradock, jcradock at me3.com
>>
>> me3 Technology Consultants, LLC
>> 24 Preble Street, 2nd Floor
>> Portland, ME 04101
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>-----
>James Cradock, jcradock at me3.com
>
>me3 Technology Consultants, LLC
>24 Preble Street, 2nd Floor
>Portland, ME 04101
>
>207-772-3217 (office)
>207-838-8678 (mobile)
>
>www.me3.com