[Mapserver-users] Some improvement might be done for the mapserver's documentation .

[Lowell Filak]

Please consider posting all the helpful instructions you have graciously composed to the wiki as it provides an opportunity for everyone to correct/update/add as needed.
Thanks.
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by "pond bear" <pond_bear at hotmail.com> on Tue, 03 Jun 2003 14:57:58 -0500.

> Hi, everybody
> 
> I will attend the first MapServer Users Meeting on St. Paul Campus of the 
> University of Minnesota. So we will meet there. See you.
> 
> I have used mapserver for half a year and met a lot difficuties in 
> installation and compilation. The documentations about mapserver 
> installation on Linux is very misleading. To save you time, here is a list 
> of suggestions I will recommend to add into Mapserver help files.
> 
> 1.  Mapserver3.7 requires GD2.0.12 or up, which is important but not 
> mentioned in " MapServer Unix Compilation and Installation Howto".
> 
> 2. There still is a "Mapplet Howto" while mapplet has been upgraded to jbox. 
> Replacing it with "jbox howto" will be more helpful.
> 
> 3. Many people have mentioned the problem "Can't find XXXX.so" after 
> installing mapserver, which is due to the library not in the searching path. 
> Maybe we can add following  in "Mapserver Unix Compilation and Installation 
> Howto":
> 
> Add a line in httpd.conf
> "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/home/oracle/OraHome1/lib"
> 
> 4. "Mapserver PHP/Mapscript Installation Howto" doesn't mention PHP must be 
> compiled as a CGI program in Linux, which is the only way we have found to 
> get php work with mapserver.
> 
> 5. "MapFile Reference - MapServer 3.7" fails to mention the new features 
> such as DATAPATTERN, which is one of the most important new features of 3.7.
> 
> 6. In turtorial and Demo, the input image type is gif which can't be handled 
> by mapserver with the default configuration of  GD (no gif support). Why not 
> make a new version of turtorial and demo using PNG as input image?
> 
> Jing
> 
> University of North Dakota.
> 
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