[OpenLayers-Users] Caching alternatives for Mapserver?

[B. Heath Robinson]

I am using Mapserver with TileCache.  TileCache will work with Mapserver or Mapnik via APIs or with any WMS layer.

On Mar 7, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Wally Atkins wrote:

> geoserver comes with geowebcache as a plugin ... so you could use geoserver itself or just use geowebcache as a caching layer
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> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Dege <jeff.dege at korterra.com> wrote:
> We’ve a number of WMS sites, serving a number of shapefiles via MapServer.
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> Performance on the more complicated maps is adequate, at best.
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> Some years ago, we’d been using KaMap to provide a layer of caching over MapServer.  KaMap is a php script that uses mapserver to generate tiles that are written to a disk cache, and it integrates with OpenLayers fairly well.
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> But MapServer has moved on, in the last few years, and so has OpenLayers.  KaMap hasn’t been updated since 2006.  It doesn’t work with MapServer 5.6+ out-of-the-box, and before I spend much time trying to hack it into some shape that will work, I thought I’d ask:
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> What other alternatives are there for serving shapefiles, that provide caching on the server side, that work well with OpenLayers on the client?
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