[mapserver-users] What is the best way to generate WMS?

Richard Greenwood richard.greenwood at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 05:59:38 PDT 2018


On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 3:33 AM Sven Schroeter <schroeter at netgis.de> wrote:

> Hi Vladimir,
>
> the fastest way is probably the CGI variant. You write your mapfiles and
> deliver the data via mapserv and the corresponding parameters.
> In the case of PHP you have to build a wrapper, which is no problem. If
> your server runs under windows, this is the better variant, because many
> firewalls close when you call mapserv.exe.
>

On a Windows server just rename mapserv.exe to mapserv and all will be good.

Rich




> When it comes to custom programming, the php (or python or C# or Java)
> variant has more influence.
>
> Greetings
> Sven
>
>
>
> Von: mapserver-users [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im
> Auftrag von Vladimir
> Gesendet: Freitag, 21. September 2018 09:51
> An: mapserver-users
> Betreff: [mapserver-users] What is the best way to generate WMS?
>
> Hi list,
>
> There are several tables with a lot of objects in PostGis database.
> Fields of the tables contain styles(color, width etc)
>
> The goal is fast getting a single image(WMS) on client .
> I am aware about two ways to do it:
> mapserv as FactCGI and some kind of MapScript(PHP in my case)
>
> What is the best for performance?
> Is there more productive way?
>
> Regards.
>
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Richard W. Greenwood, PLS
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