[maplab-users] having problem install mapserver

[Paul Spencer]

Dara,

I am assuming that you want to use MapLab.  If not, please ask this 
question on the mapserver users mailing list (available through 
http://lists.gis.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo).

you should find the php extensions in the extensions directory of your 
php installation.  Normally, I would get the win32 binary package in zip 
format and extract to c: and rename the directory something like:

c:\php423

for php version 4.2.3

I'm not exactly sure how to set up PHP to work with IIS/PWS but there 
are instrustions in the PHP documentation that you should use, try the 
online version at:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.iis.php

MAKE SURE YOU USE THE CGI BINARY OPTION FOR THIS!!!!!

At this point you should be able to create a page called phpinfo.php in 
your web root with the following contents:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

and then access it from http://localhost/phpinfo.php.

If you have php set up right, you will see a lovely lot of output that 
describes your current php installation.  If it didn't work, you have to 
keep trying to get it to.  I can't really help much unless you get past 
this point.

Once you have a working PHP installation with your Web Server, you then 
need to install mapscript (you do _NOT_ need the mapserv.exe CGI to make 
maplab work.  MapScript is mapserver in a PHP compatible library). 
Simply copy php_mapscript.dll to c:\php423\extensions and copy the 
libwww DLLs to c:\windows\system32 or some other directory in your path.

At this point, you should be able to modify your phpinfo.php script to read:

<?
dl( "php_mapscript.dll" );
phpinfo();
?>

and access it through http://localhost/phpinfo.php.  If all went well, 
you should have no error message at the top of the page and you should 
find a MapScript section somewhere in the page.

Now you can follow the maplab installation instructions.

HTH

Paul

Bun Him Dara wrote:
> HI all
>  
> Please help me I am new to this.
>  
> in the instruction install mapserver it say
>  
> <To install the MapServer CGI program, copy mapserv.exe to the CGI-BIN
> directory of your WWW Server. (In Microsoft's IIS, this is either in
> "C:\Inetpub\Scripts" or "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin". In Apache, this is 
> usually
> in "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\cgi-bin".)>
>  
> i am using window 2000 i don't see cgi-bin neither script ( i use the 
> installpack php to make it work with IIS)
>  
> and another question is how can I fine the extension
>  
> php_dbase.dll
> php_gd.dll
>  
>  
> Thank in advance
>  
> Dara


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Paul Spencer
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group Inc.
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