PHP and MapScript setup issues on Win and IIS

[Jacob Delfos]

Jacob,

I do have a hint; please be aware that on windows XP, your IIS will not accept more than 10 users at a time. That is a limitation of windows which was done on purpose, except for the 'server' versions. We ran into this problem within one day of us putting our site into production (luckily our network administrator was not as ignorant as us, and he had a gut feeling that might be why a lot of users ran into random problems when it was busy). We converted to Apache. From a security point of view, this may not be a bad idea anyway. Our logs indicate that our server is often under heavy attack from people trying to get in, and since IIS has more vulnerabilities than Apache does, I'm glad we're not running that.

regards,

Jacob


-----Original Message-----
From: Jacob Blankenship [mailto:jhblankenship at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 20 August 2004 08:47
To: Jacob Delfos
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] PHP and MapScript setup issues on Win and IIS


Jacob, Your suggestions are much appreciated.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get php 5.0 and
MapServer 4.2.2 to work together, so I opted to use
php 4.3.8 instead (per an earlier suggestion), and
this is working. Having ruled up permissions as the
problem I've removed limited them on my extensions
directory to admin and the user running IIS. If you
have any other thoughts (links, hints, etc)that you
would like to pass on to a newbie I will further in
your debt. 

Thank you,
Jacob

--- Jacob Delfos <jacob.delfos at MAUNSELL.COM> wrote:

> Hi Jacob,
> 
> Have you made sure that your extension directories
> are in your System Path? For me, I had to map them
> for the system to be able to find them. Actually,
> later on when I deployed mapserver I just put them
> in the system directory, because I'm lazy, and to
> make sure it can definitely find the DLL's. Giving
> permissions to that folder doesn't mean your
> executables can find them.
> 
> It's probably best if you remove the permissions
> from your extension directory. You don't need people
> on the internet to be able to get to those files.
> It's only your own system that needs to be able to
> find them. Don't mix up permissions with the system
> path.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jacob
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Jacob Blankenship
> Sent: 19 August 2004 21:51
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] PHP and MapScript
> setup issues on Win and IIS
> 
> 
> Hello All, I looking for a good source of
> information
> on troubleshooting the setup of php and mapscript.
> I'm
> trying to set it up on both Win XP and Advanced
> Server
> 2003, both are running IIS 5.1. I've gotten php
> installed and it seems to work (I can get a php page
> with a call to phpinfo() to run and return).
> However, when I try adding a call to
> dl(php_mapscript_42.dll) to the same test page the
> following is returned:
> 
> "Warning: dl() [function.dl]: Unable to load dynamic
> library 'C:\PHP\Extensions\php_mapscript_42.dll' -
> The
> specified module could not be found. in
> c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test.php on line 5"
> 
> I have granted full access to 'C:\PHP\Extensions\'
> to
> everyone, and edited my php.ini file to point to
> C:\PHP\Extensions\ for extensions. And I've verfied
> that MapServer is installed by running
> http://localhost/Scripts/mapserv.exe?, which returns
> the following: "No query information to decode.
> QUERY_STRING not set."
> 
> I have MapServer 4.2, PHP 5.0 installed.
> 
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated,
> Jacob
> 
> 



  
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