mapscript installation on debian

Thu Mar 24 05:49:00 PST 2005

Oops. Ed McNierney pointed out for me on 3/15 that I want MapServer
configured without tiff support -- GDAL will provide that -- and my
instructions here don't reflect this change:

"--with-tiff" should be changed to "--without-tiff"

Thanks, Ed.

On Mar 24, 2005, at 8:43 AM, James Cradock wrote:

> 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
>>
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>>
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>>
> -----
> 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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