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<font face="Times New Roman">Hi all,<br>
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The last few months I have been working in a Cloud environment
with lots of virtual machines, all with MapServer, PostGIS and
PL/R. I couldn't work with binaries, since different sites needed
different configurations. It's not difficult to compile MapServer
once you have done it a few times, but it becomes boring if you
need to do it dozens of times. So I made a shell-script that on
the one hand compiles the whole MapServer-PostGIS-PLR suite with
one command, but leaves the possibility to adapt every
configuration parameter. Everything is done at the user level: no
super user rights are needed, no system files are changed, and the
whole installation takes place within a single directory tree.
Multiple installations can coexist on the same computer. You can
find it, together with instructions, at:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mapserver.sara.nl/Install">http://mapserver.sara.nl/Install</a><br>
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I tried out four different configurations on dozens of virtual
machines, installed from standard distribution DVD's: Debian,
Fedora, Suse and the OSGEO Live CD (Xubuntu) , so I'm reasonably
sure it works on fresh, modern installation. Older and much-used
systems could give trouble, although I don't expect many problems
there either. Let me know if this is useful for you and how it
could be ameliorated.<br>
<br>
Jan <br>
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