[Cartoweb-users] install problems for existingIIS6+Mapserver4.6.0+PHP5.1.2

[Oliver Christen]

Hi

we have little experience with IIS so I cant answer all your question.

be sure you have the correct version of php_mapscript for your version of 
mapserver and php, if not, I fear you will have to compile it.
there are a few version there: 
http://www.maptools.org/php_mapscript/index.phtml?page=download-archives.html
also, as Dirk Jesko said, all the dependences must also be installed at the 
right place!
we have an old documentation for manual installation on windows, maybe it 
helps:
http://www.cartoweb.org/doc_head/docbook/xhtml/appendix.windows_manual_install.html

as long as the php_mapscript is not installed correctly, Cartoweb wont work 
as it is a critical requirement.

you can easily check if it is installed correctly if you create a simple php 
file with "phpinfo();" in it, mapscript should be listed in the result page.

the blank page is probably because IIS doesnt display the error message for 
one reason or another.

I suppose you already had a look at 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php ? especially the users 
comments

I fear this is all I can do, sorry

regards
Oliver

> I've been asked to work on an existing Mapserver site, including 
> redeploying it as a Cartoweb project. I have solid if not extensive 
> experience with web application development (PHP, MySQL, Mapserver, ASP, 
> ASP.NET), but not much experience with server setup and maintenance. After 
> a full 2 days of reading and experimenting, I still cannot get a basic 
> Cartoweb demo to run... hope I can get some pointers to get setup.
>
> The existing configuration is Windows Server 2003, IIS 6.0, Mapserver 
> 4.6.0, PHP 5.1.2.  There is a functioning Mapserver website running. My 
> first goal is to install Cartoweb and run the demos.
>
> I downloaded cartoweb-withdemo-3.3.0.zip and unzipped it in it's own new 
> directory.
>
> First of all, I cannot get the "prerequisites" going. I have copied 
> php_mapscript.dll to the PHP extensions directory, I have made sure that 
> cgi.force_redirect=0. When I go to cartoweb3 info.php I get the error 
> message "WARNING: can't load mapscript library".
>
> Nonetheless, after wrestling with that problem for too long, I tried to 
> continue with the cartoweb install, hoping that maybe I'd gain some more 
> insight or ideas in the process. I executed the basic setup command:
>
> php cw3setup.php --install --base-url 
> http://umaacorn.provost.ads.umass.edu/acorncw/cartoweb3/htdocs
>
> but I get blank windows when I go to client.php or demoCW3.php... they 
> load but there's no HTML content.
>
> I have tried dozens of other things - messing around with the IIS 
> configuration (currently it seems to be using php5isapi.dll, so I've tried 
> php-cgi.exe with no luck, but maybe I didn't set it up right).
>
> I would love to have a step-by-step or a checklist to go by... but will 
> settle for help of any kind!  Hope someone out there with similar setup 
> and/or experience will lend a hand, and I'll be glad to return favors in 
> the future!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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