Can anyone email a MapServer cgi binary package for redhat?

[Peter Shrock]

Dear Tara:

I do not know Linux, However, the approach I wanted to take is valid, if you
could read Novell's tech paper:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11775.html

Our MapServer Expert Frank Warmerdam also recommended the same approach. 

IMHO, this kind of package may be very important for our MapServer community. 

A few years ago, a friend told me that a student spent three weeks to get
mapserver installed. I laughed, as I though that should be a 20-minutes work
(at least it is true for ArcIMS, let alone ArcIMS's comprehensie functions). 
Now, I have spent two months, and did not get it work. Considering human
resource cost, MapServer is actually more expensive than ArcIMS. 

Would it make sense for the The annual Free and Open Source Software for
Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference discuss this in its coming conference?




--- Tara Athan <tara_athan at ALT2IS.COM> wrote:

> Peter- there should be quite a few message in the archives over the last 
> two weeks where I was getting advice from this list about installing 
> mapserver on a shared hosting plan.  I tried quite a few things, 
> including FWTOOLS as well as building from scratch.  I could never get 
> the extra libraries recognized as they were needed. It appears that 
> mapserver is not ready for the shared hosting environment, unless you 
> are so experienced at Linux system adminstration that you can figure out 
> on your own how to circumvent all the limitations of your particular 
> service.  Or perhaps it is the documentation of how to do it that is the 
> gap.  Either way, after investing considerable hours and attempting all 
> proposed solutions kindly suggested by this list, I gave up.
> 
> I am now trying out a mapserver hosting service in addition to my shared 
> host service. I choose not to move all of my pages to the mapserver 
> hosting service, because the shared hosting service offers quite a few 
> things that the mapserver services do not, plus I have several sites in 
> the middle of transition to CMS and it was just too complicated.  If you 
> haven't got too much invested with your shared hosting plan, you could 
> drop them entirely and move your whole site to a mapserver hosting 
> service, as that would be cheaper, (although not as cheap as most shared 
> hosting plans!)  Good luck.
> 
> If you do somehow manage to get mapserver installed on your shared host 
> service, please post the details as it would benefit many others.
> 
> Tara
> 
> 
> Peter Shrock wrote:
> > Hello, all:
> >
> > I purchased a shard hosting plan a few months ago, and wnted to implement
> > mapserver. Due to the nature of shared hosting, all I can do is to upload
> > files. it is unfortunate that they do not allow compiling, installtion, or
> > change of environmental variables.
> >
> > I have been looking around for about a month, and have not found a solution
> > yet.
> >
> > I tried FWTOOLS, using the approach that Frank Warmerdam indicated (below),
> but
> > with no luck.
> >
> > - upload mapserv executable and all the shared libraries somewhere.
> > - upload proj.4 support files (like epsg init file) somewhere
> > - create a mapserv wrapper script in the cgi-bin directory which sets
> >    environment variables pointing to various things and then executes
> >    the real mapserv binary.  Environment variables would include:
> >      LD_LIBRARY_PATH: needs to point to directory with all the .so files.
> >      PROJ_LIB: needs to point to directory with the proj support files.
> >
> > Now I have to come back to this mailing list for help.  Basically, I am
> looking
> > for the mapserver cgi and the SO files (for libpng, freetype, libgd,  Zlib,
> > Proj4, GEOS, GDAL). I will use a wrapper script to define the location of
> the
> > dependencies, using Frank Warmerdam's suggestions.
> >
> > I will appreciate it if anyone can email me this type of binary package.
> > Honestly, I do not know if such package exists. 
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >      
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