[Chameleon] Linux install 2.4 with php5

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,
For the 2.0 release, we wrote a bunch of documentation. The 
documentation is still for the current release (2.4) valid except for 
few points. In short what need to be done for the normal installation is:

1. untar chameleon somewhere
2. Create a web-accessible /tmp/ms_tmp/
3. Create the following aliases in apache:
   chameleon/htdocs/ -> /chameleon/
   chameleon/samples/htdocs/ -> /chameleon/samples/
4. Edit the chameleon/config/chameleon.xml configuration file. You 
probably have to copy chameleon.dist.xml. The documentation is in the file.
5. Test the installation at:
http://127.0.0.1/chameleon/samples/

Note that to save trouble, you may consider to install with FGS:
http://www.maptools.org/fgs/
It's a self-installer for mapserver.

Julien

ian wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the answer. Must admit though, you got me.
> I am confused. In (2.4) the most recent release document 
> (release199beta4.txt) says ->
> 
> Documentation
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Finally, our updates to existing documenation are done. There's still a 
> lot of new documentation that needs to be written (eventually), but the 
> following documents are now formally part of the Chameleon package:
> 
> Installation Guide
> ++++++++++++++++++
> 
> The Chameleon Installation Guide has been updated and included in this 
> release. Instructions are provided for Windows and *nix platforms. If 
> you have experience installing in another environment, or some lessons 
> learned, please consider sending them to us on the mailing list for 
> inclusion the in the Installation Guide.
> 
> the installation guide inside the docs/html directory however is for 
> version 2.0 of chameleon(maybe this is a bug?)
> I have done the following:
> un-tarred chameleon into /opt and created the sym link to my web 
> accessible application directory. Do I now have to edit chameleon.xml 
> and/or cwc2.xml for the application xml settings.? Also I need to create 
> apache2 aliases for which directories? Also do I have to create
> ms_tmp
> ms_tmp/buttons
> in my web accessible folder?
> Couple of more questions:
> 1. I dynamically create mapfile query layers on the fly...can chameleon 
> support this?
> 2. I use Postgresql stored procedures...can chameleon support this?
> 
> Sorry for the mountain of questions but i will shut up soon if i can get 
> it working ;)
> []'s
> Ian
> 

-- 
Julien-Samuel Lacroix
Mapgears
http://www.mapgears.com/