[Mapbender-dev] ms4w and Mapbender - provide some information about Mapbender

[Jeff McKenna]

Also, if you need anything updated before FOSS4G (why not, great to 
announce this in Boston!) please send it to me this weekend and I will 
add it - but try to do that before Monday, as the FOSS4G chaos begins ha!

-jeff



On 2017-08-12 11:24 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi Astrid,
> 
> Comments inline below:
> 
> On 2017-08-11 3:28 AM, Astrid Emde wrote:
>> Hello Jeff,
>>
>> I had a workshop wit ms4w and mapbender this week.
>>
>> Worked fine.
> 
> Great! thanks for this feedback, I am glad it worked for you.
> 
>>
>> I only ran into trouble when we wanted to update Mapbender and run he 
>> app/console commands which seams not to be possible with php fcgi.
>>
>> We downloaded php in the end and used the php.exe to rund the 
>> app/console commands.
> 
> It would be very helpful to me if you could file an MS4W ticket and 
> state the exact commands and the problems that you had, and then I can 
> fix that for the next release.  Please file the ticket at 
> http://ms4w.com/trac
> 
>>
>> Now the question is:
>> 1. can we provide a description at ms4w page somewhere? Or did I miss 
>> this page?
>> http://www.ms4w.com/README_INSTALL.html#
> 
> 
> Yes of course.  You can see a list of the applications at 
> http://www.ms4w.com/README_INSTALL.html#ms4w-applications but if you 
> want more details added, please send me the notes in Restructured Text 
> format (.txt) and I will add it to that README (so it will be visible 
> both online, and included in each installation).
> 
>> 2. Can we provide a text-file in the download package to provide 
>> important information?
> 
> yes, definitely.  A normal .txt file is perfect.  I will include that in 
> the Mapbender3 package.
> 
>>
>> 3. Can we provide information about Mapbender3 here?
>> http://www.ms4w.com/download.html
>>
> 
> yes, maybe your questions 1) and 3) can be combined: provide me a 
> restructured text file containing Mapbender3 notes, and I can point to 
> that inside the README, and also point to it on the download page.  Is 
> that ok?
> 
>> ms4w makes it easy to use Mapbender and get it running. But if you 
>> want more complex features (new database, search, digitizer, your own 
>> template) you will need some background information.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
> 
> Agreed. Let me know how to proceed.
> 
> thanks for this momentum! :)
> 
> -jeff
> 
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