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

Fri Feb 28 09:56:30 PST 2014

Hi Jeff,
That sounds very exciting moving forward.  We will probably eventually be interested in the enterprise edition, especially if it is year subscription.  Any ideas on pricing yet?  Is it going to be per server?

Anyway, my biggest problem right now is I'm going to have to remove MS4W in the next few days due to the security scans pointing out vulnerabilities in Apache and PHP.  Do you have any plans on releasing a Dev version any time soon with these components being updated?

We tried updating Apache but it seemed to have trouble with the mod_cache.dll.  Do you know if it is possible for us to upgrade this?
Thanks,
James

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From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of Jeff McKenna [jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 7:09 AM
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

--
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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