[Mapserver-west] Pull Data From Separate Server

[Ken Lord]

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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