[postgis-users] Re:PostGIS (& Apache/PHP) on a Windows USB stick

[joanne cook]

Hi All,
 
I'm very interested in the idea of postgis/postgresql on a usb stick, or at the least a standalone installation. I have done a fair bit of digging around too, and it seems as if no one can see the point in this, or that they think it's a lazy thing to ask for! What I am trying to do is provide a preconfigured version of xampp that contains a suite of gis tools, and postgresql/postgis is pretty much the last on the list to be included. You would need it to be run from a batch file or something, rather than as a service. The obvious problems are finding out the unprivileged user that it should run as, and setting the paths, since the drive letter might change. Things like python will run from a usb stick if you install them onto a hard drive then copy the directory over, and set a few enivironmental variables, so I am hoping that it will be possible to do the same with postgresql. I don't really have very much more to contribute though, but it would be nice to keep this debate running!
 
Cheers
 
Jo
 
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Joanne Cook BSc MLitt AIFA MBCS
Information Systems Coordinator
Oxford Archaeology North
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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:59:09 -0700
From: Brian Timoney <brian at thetimoneygroup.com>
Subject: [postgis-users] Re:PostGIS (& Apache/PHP) on a Windows USB
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David:

Thanks for looking into it.  I did a little more research and it seems
that there isn't a plug-and-play Postgres variation (on Windows at
least) of the XAMMP project (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html).

That said, I think it may have a small, useful role in the constellation
of options of how to get folks to test-drive different software
combinations.

Thanks again,

Brian




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