mapscript installation on debian

Wed Aug 17 12:06:35 PDT 2005

Thanks for your suggestion Armin.  Actions.load is enabled via the
debian style apache2 configuration mechanism.
Are there any other ideas out there?  Has anyone completed a successful
debian sarge mapscript install that has any suggestions?

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Armin Burger
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 12:47 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] mapscript installation on debian

Thomas,

you might have to add something in httpd.conf like

LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so

Best regards
Armin

Thomas Naberhaus wrote:

>I have been attempting to install Mapserver/php mapscript on debian
sarge
>for several days now with no luck.  When using the instructions given
below,
>I receive the following error when attempting to restart apache2:
> "Invalid command 'Action', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module
not
> included in the server configuration"
>What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone provide some insight, advice, or
perhaps
>more updated instructions for completing this install?  I am interested
in
>using the apache module version of php for non-mapscript php pages, and
the
>cgi-version only as required by mapscript.
>
>Thanks all.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:43:32 -0500, James Cradock <jcradock at ME3.COM>
wrote:
>
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>
>>This all assumes that Apache2 and PostgreSQL with PostgreSQL's
>>libraries are installed. Also assumed: That you're running Debian
Sarge
>>("testing"). (Watch the line breaks!)
>>
>>Change to user root and bring APT up-to-date:
>>
>>apt-get update
>>
>>1. Supporting libraries:
>>
>>Install libraries to make MapServer useful -- many of these are
>>documented on the UNIX installation page on MapServer's online
>>documentation:
>>
>>apt-get install libgd2 libgd2-dev proj libcurl3 libcurl3-dev libtiff4
>>libtiff4-dev libjpeg62 libjpeg62-dev freetype2 libgdal1 libgdal1-dev
>>
>>2. PHP:
>>
>>PHP must be run as a CGI and it must be configured and built with
>>system regular expressions. This install of PHP will give you PHP as a
>>CGI with system regex wihout clobbering mod_php (if it's installed)
>>with its built-in regex -- note that I'm installing the PHP I want to
>>use with MapServer in /usr/local/php_for_mapserver-4.3.10 and that I'm
>>symlinking it to make upgrading PHP easier:
>>
>>cd /usr/local/src
>>apt-get source php4-cgi
>>cd php4-4.3.10
>>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/php_for_mapserver-4.3.10
--enable-dbase
>>--with-jpeg=/usr --with-tiff=/usr --with-gd=/usr --with-png=/usr
>>--with-freetype --with-zlib --with-regex=system
>>make
>>make install
>>cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/php_for_mapserver-4.3.10/lib/php.ini
>>cd /usr/local
>>ln -s php_for_mapserver-4.3.10 php_for_mapserver
>>
>>Setup Apache to execute all *.phtml as PHP CGI. First edit
>>/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default (or whatever your default
>>configuration is):
>>
>><Directory "/var/www/mapserver">
>>   AddType application/x-httpd-php-cgi .phtml
>>   Action application/x-httpd-php-cgi /cgi-bin/php
>></Directory>
>>
>>Then add this shell script, called "php", to the /usr/lib/cgi-bin
>>directory:
>>
>>#!/bin/sh
>>
>>export SCRIPT_FILENAME=$PATH_TRANSLATED
>>/usr/local/php_for_mapserver/bin/php -c
>>/usr/local/php_for_mapserver/etc/php.ini
>>
>>Make it executable:
>>
>>chmod 755 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php
>>
>>Make the "mapserver" directory:
>>
>>mkdir /var/www/mapserver
>>
>>And make a phpinfo.phtml file:
>>
>>echo "<?= phpinfo() ?>" > /var/www/mapserver/phpinfo.phtml
>>
>>If you restart Apache ("apache2ctl restart") and navigate to
>>"http://127.0.0.1/mapserver/phpinfo.phtml" you'll see the output you'd
>>otherwise see loading a page with phpinfo() with the *.php extension.
>>
>>3. MapServer:
>>
>>cd /usr/local/src
>>wget http://cvs.gis.umn.edu/dist/mapserver-4.4.1.tar.gz
>>tar -zxvf mapserver-4.4.1.tar.gz
>>cd mapserver-4.4.1
>>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mapserver-4.4.1 --with-jpeg
>>--with-freetype=/usr/local --with-zlib --with-png --with-tiff
>>--with-gd=/usr --with-proj=/usr --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config
>>--with-wmsclient --with-php=/usr/local/php_for_mapserver
>>--with-postgis=/usr/bin/pg_config --with-mygis=/usr/bin/mysql_config
>>make
>>make install
>>
>>"make install" will print this message to your terminal window:
>>
>>***** MapServer Installation *****
>>To install MapServer, copy the 'mapserv' file to your web server's
>>cgi-bin
>>directory.
>>If you use MapScript then see the documentation for your specific
>>MapScript
>>version for installation instructions.
>>
>>Copy "mapserv" to the CGI-BIB directory:
>>
>>cp mapserv /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv
>>
>>Enable PHP/MapScript:
>>
>>cd mapscript/php3
>>mkdir /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429
>>cp php_mapscript.so /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429/
>>
>>In /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php.ini set the extension_dir to
>>/usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429/, enable the
>>PHP/MapScript module:
>>
>>extension=php_mapscript.so
>>
>>And copy php_mapscript.so to the extensions directory:
>>
>>cp php_mapscript.so /usr/local/php_for_mapserver/lib/php/20020429/
>>
>>Now you don't need to load the module in your PHP script.
>>
>>Restart Apache and go again to
>>"http://127.0.0.1/mapserver/phpinfo.phtml". You'll see a block for
>>MapScript.
>>
>>4. Gotchas:
>>
>>* I've enabled MapServer and PHP/MapScript with support for MyGIS. You
>>may need to install MySQL 4.1's client libraries:
>>
>>apt-get install libmysqlclient14 libmysqlclient14-dev
>>
>>* mod_action may need to be enabled in Apache. It's disabled in Debian
>>by default:
>>
>>cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
>>ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/actions.load .
>>
>>* Again, this all assumes that Apache2 and PostgreSQL with
PostgreSQL's
>>libraries are installed.
>>
>>I hope this helps. Let me know if I should make changes to these
>>instructions.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>On Mar 23, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Lehuta Juraj - OZ wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Yes, it will be fayn,
>>>thank you very much
>>>
>>>WochteR
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: James Cradock [mailto:jcradock at me3.com]
>>>Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 4:15 PM
>>>To: Lehuta Juraj - OZ
>>>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] mapscript installation on debian
>>>
>>>I would install all the supporting software (apache2, proj, gdal, gd,
>>>etc --
>>>look at the MapServer UNIX installation docs) from APT and build PHP
>>>(to run
>>>as a CGI alongside mod_php) and MapServer from source. I've got an
>>>utterly
>>>straightforward installation recipe, including input for a gotcha or
>>>two
>>>I've gotten help with from this list, for Sarge, and I can send it to
>>>you
>>>later today and amend it to the Debian topic on the MapServer Wiki.
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>On Mar 23, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Lehuta Juraj - OZ wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>yes,
>>>>extension_dir /usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts /usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts
>>>>
>>>>and mapscript.so is realy in this directory
>>>>
>>>>my Debian is:
>>>>sarge
>>>>Linux mapserver 2.6.8-1-686 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:34:30 UTC 2004 i686
>>>>GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>>I installed mapserver and mapscript packages from deb
>>>>http://agrogeomatic.educagri.fr/debian woody main
>>>>
>>>>by:
>>>>apt-get install php-mapscript cgi-mapserver php4
>>>>
>>>>When I remove the mapscript.so from /usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts I
>>>>obtain this:
>>>>Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library
>>>>'/usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts/php_mapscript.so' -
>>>>/usr/lib/php4/20020429-zts/php_mapscript.so: cannot open shared
object
>>>>file:
>>>>No such file or directory in /var/www/test.php on line 2
>>>>
>>>>** cannot open shared object file***
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>-----
>>>James Cradock, jcradock at me3.com
>>>
>>>me3 Technology Consultants, LLC
>>>24 Preble Street, 2nd Floor
>>>Portland, ME 04101
>>>
>>>207-772-3217 (office)
>>>207-838-8678 (mobile)
>>>
>>>www.me3.com
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>-----
>>James Cradock, jcradock at me3.com
>>
>>me3 Technology Consultants, LLC
>>24 Preble Street, 2nd Floor
>>Portland, ME 04101
>>
>>207-772-3217 (office)
>>207-838-8678 (mobile)
>>
>>www.me3.com
>>    
>>
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