[Mapserver-west] Pull Data From Separate Server

[Tyler Mitchell]

Hey Luke, did Ken's ideas work for you or do you need some more brainstorming.  
I'm just finally getting caught up on some old messages...

Tell us more about what you are doing with MapServer.
Tyler

On September 29, 2005 02:52 pm, Ken Lord wrote:
> Hi Luke,
>
> The other server will need a webserving program, You can install
> Apache, and set it to respond just to intranet requests. MapServer
> will need to be fully installed like it is (i presume) on your
> webserver.
>
> The new mapserver installation will need a .map file to tell mapserver
> how to serve your rasters. You could use your mapserver website from
> your webserver as a template.
>
> ... I use the windows versions, so I can't tell you much about
> compiling the programs if you are using a *nix OS but the concept is
> the same.
>
> I don't know about what the big web hosting companies would do, but
> there is web hosting company that specializes in GIS and mapserver ...
> http://www.hostgis.com/
>
> Cheers,
> Ken
>
> On 9/29/05, Luke Papez <lcpapez at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply!  If we decide to setup mapserver on another server
> > as a WMS, can we simply copy the mapserver.exe file to the cgi-bin of the
> > new server?  Does that executable depend on other files located on our
> > current host server?  If we can't copy the necessary files to the new
> > server, what is the likelyhood that we could get a big space server like
> > Yahoo or Network Solutions to compile and install mapserver?
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Luke
> >
> >
> > Ken Lord <kenlord at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Luke,
> >
> > One way would be to setup mapserver, or geoserver on another server as
> > a WMS host, and add the data to your existing website as a WMS layer.
> >
> > You could do that as an intranet site from another computer on your
> > network which will have the benefit of being much more responsive to
> > your web-server than if it is hosted over the internet.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ken Lord
> > Vancouver BC
> >
> > On 9/29/05, Luke Papez wrote:
> > > Hello Everybody --
> > > I've searched high and low, but cannot seem to find an answer to this
> > > ... Can Mapserver read data (rasters) from another server? I have a
> > > massive amount of high res imagery. It is too much to fit on our
> > > current web server. In theory, I would like to have a tileindex layer
> > > where the location field points to another server that houses the tiled
> > > images (like yahoo -- has lots more space for cheap). I have tried
> > > altering the
> >
> > location
> >
> > > field to point to http://www.myotherserver.com / images /
> > > row1column1.jpg but that doesn't work. Does anyone have any
> > > suggestions? I would really appreciate it!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Luke
> > >
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