Are they needed ?

[Przemysław Bojczuk]

Petur Kirke wrote:

> Technically, at this point, MS4W is installed! However, as you may have noticed 
> from the MS4W main index.html page, there are no applications running. What 
> this means is that there are no Web applications like MapLab or Chameleon found 
> within MS4W's Web-accessible directory, /ms4w/apps/. The MS4W-configured Web 
> applications can be found on http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?
> page=downloads.html as separate zip files.

> My question is:
> Do I need MapLab or Chameleon to run Mapserver ?
> What are these programs for ?

No, you don't *need* them to run Mapserver, it can perfectly well run
on its own. Chameleon is just a frontend to Mapserver that makes it a
bit easier to build a web application (you don't have to do it from
scratch) and MapLab allows for interacting with maps served by MS.
Other apps that you can install within MS4W serve similar purposes,
they are mainly frontends to display what MS serves in a more fancy way.

Hope that helps.

PB
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