[work] Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] hosted website installation

[Tara Athan]

I did try running the wrapper as follows:
  #!/bin/sh
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/alttwois/local/lib" 
/home/alttwois/public_html/cgi-bin/mapserv.real -v

I can't verify that gdal was built and installed properly because I am 
not experienced with this and I could have done something wrong.
However I do find libgdal.so.1 in the folder /home/alttwois/local/lib - 
is that a guarantee that it was installed correctly?
In particular, the ls command shows these files

alttwois at alt2is.com [~]# cd local/lib
alttwois at alt2is.com [~/local/lib]# ls
./   libgd.a    libgd.so@    libgd.so.2.0.0*  libgdal.la*  libgdal.so.1@
../  libgd.la*  libgd.so.2@  libgdal.a        libgdal.so@  
libgdal.so.1.11.2*

Note I also installed libgd. I was concerned at first that the mapserver 
error didn't list libgd as a problem, but then I discovered that 
bluehost has libgd installed, so apparently mapserver is using the 
library in the standard location.
However, I did discover this:
gdlib-config --version
2.0.28
But the website 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/compiling_on_unix/#minimum-libgd-versions
says that mapserver requires at least 2.0.29
So in order to run mapserver properly I would also need to convince it 
to use gd from my home directory as that is the more recent version.


Tara


Gregor Mosheh wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Yeah: GDAL and Mapserver can work just fine under these circumstances, 
> if we figure out what's wrong.
>
> Did you ever try running that wrapper, or the command line specifying 
> a LD_LIBRARY_PATH as I had suggested? That should have done it, 
> assuming that GDAL/OGR built and installed properly.
>
>
>> 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).
>
> If you go this route, feel free to contact me. I hate shilling on the 
> mailing list, but our primary business *is* geo-savvy web-hosting.
>


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Tara Athan
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