[mapserver-dev] ModMapserver?

[Dave McIlhagga]

Too bad so many of our customers are low dollar americans. ;)

Dave



On 14-Mar-08, at 12:06 PM, Howard Butler wrote:

> I think a SoC student might be able to get a demo going, but  
> there's a lot of moving parts.  If the student was fresh to both  
> APR and MapServer, it would be quite a challenge, however.
>
> It would be too much for me to do without funding -- my external  
> uses alone of it wouldn't be able to justify the effort.
>
> Maybe some of those strong dollar CDNians are interested :)
>
> Howard
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Steve Lime wrote:
>
>> Is this something you're interested in pursuing with or without  
>> funding? Perhaps this
>> is another Summer of Code possibility?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>>>> On 3/13/2008 at 6:26 PM, in message
>> <EFDB9343-F039-4F18-9BA9-0B88DD7311E7 at gmail.com>, Howard Butler
>> <hobu.inc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Steve Lime wrote:
>>>
>>>> Has anyone ever investigated the what Apache Module support would
>>>> take? Since fastcgi works reasonably well it might be a
>>>> natural next step.
>>>
>>> I remember danmo telling me YAGNI at FOSS4G in Minneapolis.  Part of
>>> my drive for wanting mod_mapserver was really to replace our  
>>> homegrown
>>> crossplatform stuff with APR, which has way more users and devs than
>>> we do.  Apart from firing up a map draw inside of an Apache process
>>> and having it promptly explode my server :) (this was before we were
>>> so diligent with our big ass locking strategy), I didn't take things
>>> too far.  At the time, MapServer did not support being built as a
>>> shared object either, IIRC.
>>>
>>> What could mod_mapserver give us over just using fastcgi?
>>> - Access to Apache-style configuration (some like and some hate  
>>> this)
>>> 	- URL specification with Location blocks (WMS answers foo/wms  
>>> and WFS
>>> answers foo/wfs without rewrite/wrapper script hacks)
>>> 	- MapServer "services" could be easily specified to encapsulate  
>>> stuff
>>> that people tend to do system-wide now (error log location, GDAL
>>> variables like GDAL_CACHEMAX)
>>> 	- Integration with Apache's error logging
>>> - Access to Apache modules from within MapServer (for fun and  
>>> twisted
>>> things)
>>> 	- mpm prefork
>>> 	- mod_auth and friends
>>> 	- mod_proxy/mod_rewrite
>>> 	- apr_memcached
>>>
>>> I think a mod_mapserver would be a fun project, and it would open up
>>> MapServer to a lot more "server" stuff.  I think a good place to  
>>> start
>>> would be something like the URL/Location specification stuff and  
>>> maybe
>>> hooking MapServer up to be able to talk to the mpm API.  You could
>>> even take it all the way and replace things like msStringToUpper  
>>> with
>>> its Apache equivalents and make APR/APR-util a required library of
>>> MapServer (I highly doubt we've the stomach for it though).
>>>
>>> Howard
>>> 	
>>>
>>
>
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