[mapserver-users] MapServer on Centos 7

[Michael Smith]

We (US Army Corps as well as the other federal agencies I work with, US Army and NGA) use MapServer 7.x on both RHEL 7 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 (binary compatible with Centos 7) and have no issues. It’s a very stable platform for us. We run in STIG-ified Apache 2 web server without issue. You can certainly send this to any ISP. 

Note that we compile and deploy on separate on separate boxes so we only have the devel packages and compilers on one and then the generated binaries and depending libs on a separate box.

Mike


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Michael Smith
Remote Sensing/GIS Center
US Army Corps of Engineers


-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users <mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Mark Jackson <mark.jackson at cerc.co.uk>
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at  11:05 AM
To: <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject: [mapserver-users] MapServer on Centos 7

    Hi there
    
    We have a managed server with MapServer and Centos. We asked our ISP 
    about moving to a new server and they said MapServer "would not work 
    well with CentOS7, certainly not without a great deal of 
    customisation and it's something we would not recommend. " (I am not 
    convinced they know much about MapServer though...)
    
    Does MapServer work well on Centos 7?
    Is there a web page that says MapServer works well on Centos 7 - so I 
    can send it to the ISP ?
    
    Back in 2011 the same ISP installed MapServer 5.6.6 onto Centos 5 
    quite easily, compiling it from source. I don't know exactly why they 
    are reluctant to install MapServer on Centos 7 - they have not given 
    details. We would be happy to use the most up-to-date MapServer, 7.
    
    I've looked at mapserver.org but can't find anything clear about 
    Centos 7 support. I think the most relevant pages are the download 
    page http://mapserver.org/uk/download.html and the compiling on Unix 
    page http://mapserver.org/installation/unix.html
    
    (I'm reluctant to shift to another ISP because up to now, these guys 
    have been excellent. I'd like to convince them that MapServer is fine 
    on Centos 7.)
    
    Thanks
    Mark
    
    
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