[FGS] Preliminary mapserver package

[Daniel Morissette]

Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> 
>>To finish, you need to run fgsinstall-mapserver.sh. This script adds
>>LD_LIBRARY_PATH in apache conf and installs mapserv cgi in the
>>/var/www/cgi-bin directory.
> 
> 
> I too am nervous about a script that modifies apache conf, especially since 
> we're running on a test server that has a production apache setup running :)
> 

Actually, it doesn't modify the main httpd.conf. What Guillaume's script 
does is create a fgs-mapserver.conf in Apache's /etc/httpd/conf.d/ 
directory. Next time the server is started this file is included and the 
MapServer config is loaded. Of course the impact is the same if you're 
doing this on a production server.

I just realized that setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH this way is global to the 
web server, so that may cause side-effects on other CGI's running on the 
same server.

> I'd love to see us try out a stand-alone web server just for this project.  
> Anyway ideas?
> 

That may be the only option to have a self-contained distribution, and 
if we do it then I would vote for using Apache, perhaps we could/should 
build our own lite version and distribute it as a FGS package, running 
on port 8080. The reason to go with Apache is that this is what most 
systems use, that's what most people are used to configuring, and if you 
start configuring your local FGS package it will be easy to port (copy) 
your config to your real live server later on.

Daniel
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