hosted website installation

[Aaron Racicot]

Tara,
Coming to this conversation late, so I am not sure what you have tried.  I
have had success on a shared host two ways:

1) Install FWTools as it contains Mapserver and GDAL and is self contained.
http://fwtools.maptools.org/

2) I have played with static library paths via RPATH when compiling from
source with success in the past.  I even documented an install on DreamHost
(pretty much the cheapest of the cheap) that worked.
http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/how-tos/gis-on-a-shared-hosting-environme
nt-the-magic-of-not-having-root/

Hope these help...

A

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-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Tara Athan
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:09 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] hosted website installation

Additional information that may or may not be relevant:  my ISP responded as
follows

Dear Customer,
There is no server side limitation to paths.  You may specify custom paths
to any library that you have need of using.  The only limitation would be on
the library itself (whether it could be accessed from an alternate location)
and the program that needs to access the library.

So basically they are saying it must be either gdal's fault or MapServer's
fault that mapserver cannot access the gdal library from an alternate
location.

Anyone care to weigh in on this?

I guess I am giving up on the installation of Mapserver on the hosted 
website and will have to get some help from a GIS hosting service (or 
set up my own web server).  But it seems like this should have been doable.

Anyway, thanks for the help- I certainly learned a lot in the attempt...

Tara



Tara Athan wrote:
> I tried this- no change.
> I tried getting support from my ISP, but they are unwilling to help.
> (mapserver?  we don't know anything about that- ask the support forum)
>
> Has anyone else had success or problems with bringing up MapServer on 
> a hosted website?
>
> Tara
>
> Gregor Mosheh wrote:
>> Tara Athan wrote:
>>> I found libgdal.so.1 in /home/alttwois/local/lib
>>> On running ./mapserver -v, I get the same error message as before
>>
>>> /home/alttwois/public_html/cgi-bin/mapserv.real: error while loading 
>>> shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No 
>>> such file or directory
>>
>> Well that's bizarre. How about this?
>>
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/alttwois/local/lib" 
>> /home/alttwois/public_html/cgi-bin/mapserv.real -v
>>
>> That's all one line. That sets the linker path on the command line, 
>> then runs the command.
>>
>>
>
>


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Tara Athan
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