[mapserver-users] Remote MapFile

[Mark Korver]

This method is specific to Amazon EC2, but there is a gist located here
https://gist.github.com/mwkorver/1ef45abac3871360f2b1
that is an example of how to deploy a cluster of Mapservers using a remote
map file AND data. Both map file and source geotiffs are accessed via HTTP
because they both sit on S3.
The user-data script will install a few things including Yas3fs to run a
Dockerized Mapserver image behind Nginx. Yas3fs is what mounts the S3
buckets in RO mode on the filesystem.
The Dockerfile located here - https://github.com/mwkorver/mapserver
is the source for the image referenced in the user-data script. Even if you
don't care for Docker it useful as an install script for Mapserver on
Ubuntu if you are looking to use Nginx.
One problem I still have not fixed is that on reboot, Mapserver does not
restart. Everything else comes back up. If someone could let me know how to
fix that I would appreciate it.
-Mark



On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

> You could possibly make a SLD work with a WMS request, depending on what
> you need the mapfile to do.
>
> bobb
>
>
>
> On Mar 21, 2016, at 5:50 AM, Marco Afonso <mafonso333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> It is possible to get a remote mapfile instead from a local path in the
> cgi-variable?
>
> For example, instead of:
> http://localhost:8081/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=/local/path/mymap.map
>
> Something like:
>
> http://localhost:8081/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=http://remotemachine/mymap.map
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Marco Afonso
> http://goo.gl/ZDtQjm
>
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