[mapserver-users] Upgrading Apache and PHP that came with MS4W

[Donald Kerr]

Great news, Jeff. I do hope that the community edition will not be too
lacking too many features. It was the fact that your MS4W was so
comprehensive that brought me to MapServer.

Regards,

Donald


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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
Sent: 28 February 2014 14:10
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Upgrading Apache and PHP that came with MS4W

Hello Mark, James, Jukka, all,

I have worked very hard over the past 10 years (wow) maintaining MS4W on
Windows, making it a hugely popular product.  The reality is, as Mark just
stated, many organizations rely on the full MS4W suite for their Windows
servers, yet I haven't focused on supporting those organizations' needs.
Well, the time is now for that.  I have purchased www.ms4w.com and will be
moving MS4W there, and will be offering a subscription-based service for the
MS4W suite: Enterprise Edition (Apache, MapScripts, MapCache, data packages,
64-bit, IIS support, plugins, etc.), and a free Community edition (nightly
builds of mapserv.exe binaries).  This will keep MS4W thriving, up-to-date,
and innovative.

Of course custom builds are always possible, and you will be able to contact
me directly as usual.

So rest assured, my company Gateway Geomatics is fully behind our product.
If I am quiet, those who know me know it usually means that I am working
very hard.

Thanks again for using MS4W for sharing your organization's spatial
information.   More on this soon! :)

-jeff



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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/


On 2/28/2014, 9:18 AM, Mark Volz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think there are a lot of people in the same postion where we would like
to upgrade Mapserver on Windows.  I think there are a couple mapserver
options out there yet.
> 
> 1) Move to Linux.  With the end of support for Windows XP coming up soon,
I am sure that there will be plenty of extra computers around that you can
try installing linux and mapserver on the machine.  I know historically
mapserver on Linux outperformed mapserver on Windows.
> 2) Encourage continued development of MS4W.  A long time ago, I asked Jeff
Mckenna about the Status of MS4W and how much it would cost to get an
upgrade.  The price he gave to me was more than what I think my organization
could afford.  However, I am sure if pool some development funds together
from many organizations, then it may be easier for MS4W to keep up to date.
> 
> Thanks
> Mark Volz, GISP
> 
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Nobody answered for you so supposedly that means that the answer is: No,
>> there are no documents and probably no compiled Mapcache binaries
>> available for Windows.
>> I managed to install Apache and Mapserver 6.4.1 from with the OSGeo4W
>> installer. Also daily development buids of Mapserver are available but
not
>> Mapcache. The installed Apache seems to be version 2.2.14-4 and PHP is a
bit
>> old version 5.2.5 from Nov 8, 2007 so that is not the way for you to
upgrade.
>> However, I have noticed that your conclusion was to  switch to Geoserver.
>> Follow the situation, perhaps you can switch back one day but once you
have
>> configured Geoserver and built all the SLD styles it may feel a bit
heavy.
>>
>> -Jukka Rahkonen-
>>
>>
>> EVANS, JAMES wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm running the dev version of MS4W with Mapcache.   Our security scans
>> are
>>> pointing to Apache and PHP that came with MS4W as vulnerabilities.
>>> Our system admin tried updating the Apache, but this caused problems
>>> with mod_mapcache.dll.  Has anyone had any luck upgrading the Apache
>>> and PHP that came with MS4W without breaking things?  Also, is there a
>>> good document describing how to deploy the latest Mapserver/Mapcache
>> on a widows server?
>>> James
>>>

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