[mapserver-users] recommended tile caching mechanism with `mode=tile`

[Daniel Morissette]

On 11-09-18 10:08 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
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> 1. I was looking at mod_cache (mod_disk_cache and mod_mem_cache) yesterday and wondering if they could be used to cache the images. Is mod_geocache inspired/based on those modules?
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I dunno. I will let Thomas answer this one.

> 2. Why wed this to Apache? By making it web-server agnostic, you open up the audience.
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Because that is the fastest you can get (within 5-10% of the performance 
of serving static files).

However, MapCache also "produces a CGI/fastCGI executable for using with 
other webservers than apache"[1]. You just won't get the same performance.

[1] http://mapserver.org/trunk/mapcache/

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