[mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer

[Jackie Ng]

All good now, for some reason an old copy of mod_mgmapagent.so was being kept
in the installer support files which overwrote the newer one when the
build.bat is preparing the staging area.

- Jackie


Tom Fukushima wrote:
> 
> Hi Jackie,
> 
> I am using Apache2.2.4 with mod_mgmapagent.so (build using VS2008) without
> problems.  If you are using the same version of Apache it should also
> work.  
> 
> Make sure the following lines are in your httpd.conf, otherwise the module
> won't load:
> LoadFile ../Php/php5ts.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/ACE.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgFoundation.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgGeometry.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgHttpHandler.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgMapGuideCommon.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgMdfModel.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgMdfParser.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgPlatformBase.dll
> LoadFile ../Php/MgWebApp.dll
> 
> Put these lines before the Dynamic Shared Object/LoadModule section.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:11 AM
> To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] About the WiX installer
> 
> 
> Update time:
> 
> 1. I've added the IIS and IIS7 custom actions supplied by Autodesk. IIS7
> custom actions has not been integrated into the installer yet.
> 
> 2. You should now be able to have an IIS-specific configuration and a
> Apache-specific configuration. If you msiexec the installer from the
> command-line setting MGWEB_CONFIG=IIS|APACHE, you should get certain
> features enabled and disabled. eg. If MGWEB_CONFIG=IIS, the apache web
> server will be disabled. This means we should now be able to toggle this
> value (and the affected features) via a custom dialog (yet to be done).
> 
> 3. IIS configuration is slightly better than Apache. With IIS, php works
> and
> the mapagent works, but only through mapagent.exe (ie.
> http://localhost/mapguide/mapagent/mapagent.exe?OPERATION=...). The
> isapi_mapagent.dll handler seems to be properly mapped, but does nothing.
> I
> get login failed with Site Administrator.
> 
> 4. Fixed a small issue with php.ini, there was a bug in the templating of
> the file, resulting in a bogus php extension path. Also the installer now
> writes the PHP path to the registry so it now knows where to look for
> php.ini
> 
> The pressing issues at hand:
> 
> 1. The mapagent. I can't find out if it works for Apache because it cannot
> load mod_mgmapagent.so and it is only working in IIS if you are using the
> executable (mapagent.exe) in your mapagent calls. 
> 
> I have a small theory about why it won't load on Apache. Maybe it is
> because
> the mod_mgmapagent.so module was built with Visual Studio 2008, but the
> Apache web server binaries may have been built with something else? Would
> this make the apache module incompatible?
> 
> - Jackie
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