[mapguide-users] Newbie questions concerning MGE2008 vs. MGOS

[Jackie Ng]

1. MGE by default installs to C:\Program
Files\Autodesk\MapGuideEnterprise2008\ 
MGOS by default, installs to C:\Program Files\MapGuideOpenSource
MGE uses "mapguide2008" as its virtual directory. MGOS uses "mapguide" as
its virtual directory. As a result, you should be able to run both
side-by-side as nothing should be conflicting.

2. Server and Web Extensions are both required for MGOS to function. The
reason they are separate installers is because you can install the Server on
one machine and the Web Extensions on another. It is perfectly fine to
install both on the same machine.

- Jackie




Violet559 wrote:
> 
> Can someone please clarify the following for me? (I am new to Mapguide
> open source)
> 
> 1. If you have MGE 2008 installed on a server, how is it different from
> having MGOS installed? Is there a difference between the installation
> files you receive from Autodesk and the installation files you download
> from the MGOS website? Could you have MGE and Open Source running on the
> same server, or are they the same thing?
> 
> 2. From the requirements page
> (http://mapguide.osgeo.org/system_requirements.html), it looks like in
> order to have MGOS up and running you need to have MapGuide Server and
> MapGuide Web Server Extensions installed on a server (ie: Microsoft IIS
> 6.0 on Windows Server 2003) and have Studio installed on a PC (or your
> server). Can you have MGOS up and running without a server (for example:
> all components installed on your home Window XP PC?) 
> 
> I understand that these questions will seem fairly obivious to most
> readers. However, when you are first starting out, everything is not so
> clear!
> 
> Thanks for your time
> 
> 

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