[Chameleon] Chameleon with Windows 2k and IIS

[Paul Spencer]

many thanks Nicolas.

Cheers,

Paul

nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca wrote:

> It's done:
> http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/wiki/ChameleonIISHowToInstall
> 
> I hope this will work for other Win2k/IIS users.
> In fact, I have to install it on one of our internal server soon so I'll see
> by myself.
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca [mailto:nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca] 
> Envoyé : Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:31 AM
> À : spencer@dmsolutions.ca
> Cc : chameleon@lists.maptools.org
> Objet : RE : RE : [Chameleon] Chameleon with Windows 2k and IIS
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I'll make a basic HowTo for the future windows2k/IIS chameleon users asap.
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba@magma.ca] 
> Envoyé : Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:14 PM
> Cc : chameleon@lists.maptools.org
> Objet : Re: RE : [Chameleon] Chameleon with Windows 2k and IIS
> 
> 
> Nicholas/Bart,
> 
> this is great stuff.  It would be really great if you could add your 
> experiences (esp the IIS stuff) to the chameleon wiki, perhaps in the 
> FAQ page?  The wiki (for those who have forgotten already ;)) is 
> available at:
> 
> http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/wiki
> 
> (also from the Docs page on the chameleon site)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul
> 
> nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Bart,
>>
>>Thx for your fast answer!
>>
>>Unfortunately, I have to work with IIS only but I got it to work now!
>>
>>The /tmp was refering to the session.save_path in the php.ini file I
>>comment all the (...) in the browscap.ini I change some path in the 
>>cwc2.xml
>>
>>And now the demo works :)
>>
>>Nicolas
>>
>>-----Message d'origine-----
>>De : bartvde@xs4all.nl [mailto:bartvde@xs4all.nl]
>>Envoyé : Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:33 AM
>>À : nicolas.fortin@ec.gc.ca
>>Cc : chameleon@lists.maptools.org
>>Objet : Re: [Chameleon] Chameleon with Windows 2k and IIS
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>----
>>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
>>----
>>
>>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/g
>>>map_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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