[mapserver-users] generated dynamic .map files

[Didier Georgieff]

Hello,

I'm in the process of using mapserver as maping tool with Zope as 
application server (we used to use ArcviewIMS).

I tested around mapserver+apache (thanks to michael anderson for 
the help) and it's really a great(tm) product !

Here is the question :

Zope is a killer for all dynamic features, and i can see a lot done on 
the Zope side (again thanks to michael anderson for all the 
informations and help).

But i have a problem understanding what can be done to generate 
"on the fly" map files when Zope server is on a different machine 
than mapserver (if it's on the same machine thay can share the 
...map filesystem). Because in this case Zope can't write filesystem 
on the mapserver machine (and i don't want to allow ftp on the 
mapserver machine filesystem for security reasons)

Reading thru the documentation i didn't understood for sure what 
can be done without a map file (all parameter in the request http 
thru get or put), or if it's possible to have a map file on a different 
machine than mapserver.

If this can't be workaround, so my solution will need to have 
mapserver and Zope on the same machine so they can share the 
same .map file dynamically. But this will reduce the abilty to adapt 
to different architectures.

Any help, tip, pointer, experience will be welcome.

Thanks in advance.

PS : Naturally all our developments will be open source.



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Didier Georgieff
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