[Chameleon] Chameleon with Windows 2k and IIS

[bartvde@xs4all.nl]

Hi Nicolas,

I can give some brief answers, but for more elaborate ones you will need
input from the guys at DmSolutions.

I can tell you what needs to be done in Apache, and perhaps you are able
to translate this to IIS.

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In httpd.conf from Apache:

Alias /ms_tmp/ /ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/

SetEnv PROJ_LIB /ms4w/proj/nad/

For PHP Chameleon "needs" the following:

session.save_path = /ms4w/tmp
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Is there a specific reason why you are using the 1.0.4 version? The 1.0
version will be deprecated in time and the 1.1 version is the one to go
with. Although it is alpha, the core is pretty stable.

I would recommend installing MS4W (with Apache and PHP preconfigured),
then see how everything functions, and map this to IIS.

-MS4W
-latest Chameleon 1.1 alpha as an MS4W package
-Chameleon sample application

With regard to the Mapscript binaries with Oracle. The binaries for
Mapserver which have Oracle Spatial support are built by somebody at the
University of Minnesota. The PHP Mapscript are built by DmSolutions, and
they don't provide one with Oracle Spatial support as far as I know.

But you can always use the principle of Cascading WMS to have the
mapserv.exe serve the Oracle Spatial data.

Hope this is of some help.

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi list,
>
> I'm using Mapserver for some time now and want to add Chameleon to get
> more
> functionnality.  I'm using Windows 2000 SP4 with IIS.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no doc about installing chameleon on Windows
> platform
> with IIS with all steps.
>
> First I manually installed PHP in C:\PHP\ successfully.
> Then I installed the PHP Mapscript extensions. I tested with <?php
> phpinfo();?> and saw the PHP Mapscript extensions.
> Last I installed Chameleon 1.0.4 in C:\cwc2\ and made a virtual directory
> from IIS that point to C:\cwc2\htdocs
> I made the C:\cwc2 dir readable-writable by IUSR_
> I made some change to the C:\cwc2\config\cwc2.xml file but I don't know if
> the paths in there are absolute or relative and if relative...to what?
>
> If I try this : http://localhost/cwc2/cwc2.php?TEMPLATE=cwc2/demo.html
> <http://localhost/cwc2/cwc2.php?TEMPLATE=cwc2/demo.html&CONTEXT=cwc2/gmap_co
> ntext.xml> &CONTEXT=cwc2/gmap_context.xml
> I got:
> FATAL ERROR: Session save path (/tmp) doesn't exist or is not writable
> Notice: Undefined index: gszSessId in
> C:\cwc2\htdocs\common\session\session.php on line 135
> PHP: Error parsing C:\winnt\system32\inetsrv\browscap.ini on line 1169 PHP
> Notice: Undefined index: gszSessId in
> C:\cwc2\htdocs\common\session\session.php on line 135
>
> I have a writable tmp dir at the root of IIS.
> Line 1167-1170 of browscap.ini:
>   [Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)]
>   parent=IE 5.5
>   platform=Windows 2000 (T312461)
>   beta=False
>
>
> 1) What do I have to do to set up Chameleon correctly for Windows/IIS ?
> 2) I used Mapserver with Oracle 9.2.  There's no INPUT=ORACLESPATIAL for
> the
> version of Mapserver Mapscript use.  Do Mapscript has a precompiled
> version
> of Mapserver or it will use the version I already have?
>
> Thx a lot,
>
> Nicolas Fortin
> Mathématicien, Programmeur, Analyste de données
> SMC-Québec Hydrologie, Environnement Canada
> 1141, Rte de l'Église, Sainte-Foy(QC) G1V 4H5
> (418)648-2516
> nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca <mailto:nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca
> <mailto:nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca> >
>
>
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