[mapserver-users] Re: Using mapserver on windows in production

[joel collins]

Thank you all for the responses.  Perhaps I am overthinking my problem.

Lets say my only requirement was to get mapserver running with the
latest versions of PHP and apache.  How would I go about accomplishing
this?  Would I download ms4w, apache, and php, and try to get them all
to talk to each other?  Or does ms4w have some special configuration
that only the version of apache that comes bundled with it will work
out of the box?

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Richard Greenwood
<richard.greenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joel,
>
> I know your frustration. I've implemented mapserver under IIS 6, IIS 7
> and IIS 7.5 with each one being harder and more frustrating than the
> previous. And if your Windows web server happens to also be domain
> controller heaven help you! Can you use Apache? It's much easier. The
> initial learning curve might seem steeper than IIS because Apache
> lacks the fancy (confusing) graphical user interface for
> configuration, but Apache offers far more flexible access control,
> aliases and redirection.
>
> If you have to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database, I'd
> recommend PHP 5.2 over 5.3 as 5.3 doesn't come with SQL Server drivers
> (or at least didn't the last time I looked).
>
> Just my $0.02.
> Rich
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:45 AM, joel collins <jconline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sorry, but I think i'm not even there yet.
>>
>> I can get ms4w working in the default configuration (older version of
>> apache and and old version of php), but I want to make it work with
>> the latest version of IIS / php.
>>
>> I have been trying unsuccessfully to get IIS7.5 to talk to the older
>> version of php...It only seems to work when i point a mapping to
>> C:\ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin\php5isapi.dll.  This gets me up to the point
>> where I try to dl('php_mapscript.dll') but i get a warning about not
>> being able to do that in IIS.
>> When i add php_mapscript.dll to the extensions in php.ini, nothing
>> happens.  I think i may be missing a dependency or soemthing?
>>
>> Running php in cgi mode results in this error:
>> HTTP Error 502.2 - Bad Gateway
>> The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete
>> set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are "".
>>
>> I"m feeling quite frustrated right now.  What is the best way to be
>> able to use php/mapscript in production in windows?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Sumit Sharma <sumit321 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> we are using mapserver to develop desktop and web applications and using them
>>> successfully in various projects.
>>> I would recommend you to put your all mapserver dll's and other dependency
>>> in one single folder. All your application executables should not be part of
>>> this folder. You may use one environment variable which may point towards
>>> mapserver directory. Thus you will be sure to use which version of mapserver
>>> you may want to use.
>>>
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