Can anyone email a MapServer cgi binary package for redhat?

[Tara Athan]

Peter- there should be quite a few message in the archives over the last 
two weeks where I was getting advice from this list about installing 
mapserver on a shared hosting plan.  I tried quite a few things, 
including FWTOOLS as well as building from scratch.  I could never get 
the extra libraries recognized as they were needed. It appears that 
mapserver is not ready for the shared hosting environment, unless you 
are so experienced at Linux system adminstration that you can figure out 
on your own how to circumvent all the limitations of your particular 
service.  Or perhaps it is the documentation of how to do it that is the 
gap.  Either way, after investing considerable hours and attempting all 
proposed solutions kindly suggested by this list, I gave up.

I am now trying out a mapserver hosting service in addition to my shared 
host service. I choose not to move all of my pages to the mapserver 
hosting service, because the shared hosting service offers quite a few 
things that the mapserver services do not, plus I have several sites in 
the middle of transition to CMS and it was just too complicated.  If you 
haven't got too much invested with your shared hosting plan, you could 
drop them entirely and move your whole site to a mapserver hosting 
service, as that would be cheaper, (although not as cheap as most shared 
hosting plans!)  Good luck.

If you do somehow manage to get mapserver installed on your shared host 
service, please post the details as it would benefit many others.

Tara


Peter Shrock wrote:
> Hello, all:
>
> I purchased a shard hosting plan a few months ago, and wnted to implement
> mapserver. Due to the nature of shared hosting, all I can do is to upload
> files. it is unfortunate that they do not allow compiling, installtion, or
> change of environmental variables.
>
> I have been looking around for about a month, and have not found a solution
> yet.
>
> I tried FWTOOLS, using the approach that Frank Warmerdam indicated (below), but
> with no luck.
>
> - upload mapserv executable and all the shared libraries somewhere.
> - upload proj.4 support files (like epsg init file) somewhere
> - create a mapserv wrapper script in the cgi-bin directory which sets
>    environment variables pointing to various things and then executes
>    the real mapserv binary.  Environment variables would include:
>      LD_LIBRARY_PATH: needs to point to directory with all the .so files.
>      PROJ_LIB: needs to point to directory with the proj support files.
>
> Now I have to come back to this mailing list for help.  Basically, I am looking
> for the mapserver cgi and the SO files (for libpng, freetype, libgd,  Zlib,
> Proj4, GEOS, GDAL). I will use a wrapper script to define the location of the
> dependencies, using Frank Warmerdam's suggestions.
>
> I will appreciate it if anyone can email me this type of binary package.
> Honestly, I do not know if such package exists. 
>
> Thank you
>
> Peter
>
>
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