[ms4w-users] help install apache !!

[bartvde@xs4all.nl]

Hi,

you're right, MS4W is intended for people to speed up installation on
Windows. Or at least that is one of the reasons. See
http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml (section target audience) for the
complete story.

What I do is setup a Mapserver CGI as a WMS server, and then use Chameleon
(also on www.maptools.org) to build my web mapping applications. Chameleon
1.1 is available as a MS4W package. So at least you need to get familiar
with displaying data with the Mapserver CGI, that's the best start. You
can do this by first learning the MAP format.

See:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc.html

Hope this helps you started.

Best regards,
Bart

>
> Hi bart
> Thanks a lot . Its good to get relplies so soon . ms4w mailing list is one
> of very few where ppl respond well . Well coming to the point . Do u mean
> to
> say ms4w is not the environment where we can customize to get our own web
> applications that make use of mapserver? Then could u tell me why we have
> /htdocs/phpinfo.php , /phpinfo_mapscript_36.php and cgi-bin/mapserver.exe
> ..etc ?
> Or it is a preconfigured set up for experienced mapserver users ?
> With regards and thanks in advance
> dharani
>
>>From: bartvde@xs4all.nl
>>To: "Dharani Babu" <dharanibabus@hotmail.com>
>>CC: ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org
>>Subject: Re: [ms4w-users] help install apache !!
>>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:30:06 +0100 (CET)
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>great. Yes if you get the index page, Apache is working ok.
>>
>>The ms4w list is only intended for specific things about the installer,
>>not Mapserver in general. Questions about Mapserver you can best post on
>>the mapserver-users list.
>>
>>See:
>>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/support.html
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Bart
>>
>> > hi bart
>> > Really good piece of info !!! its working fine !! i started apache.exe
>>and
>> > it said port 80 already engaged . So I stopped IIS and now its working
>> .
>> > So
>> > to test it I typed http://localhost/ and http://127.0.0.1 I got a
>>"Welcome
>> > to Map Server Page " So does it mean Apache is working right ?
>> > And now I need to get to grips with the MapServer Usage . How and with
>> > whatdirection I should proceed to get mu own Web applciation running
>>with
>> > MapServer ? I need to render maps which are in TIGER file format as
>> web
>> > pages . So how can i use the MapScript or MapServer dlls to get it
>> done
>>?
>> > I
>> > studied about OGR tools that read and intrepret TIGER files out of the
>>box
>> > and convert them to shp files . could u pls shed some light on how
>>should
>> > i
>> > proceed to get it done ?
>> > with thanks in advance and regards
>> > dharani , india
>> >
>> >
>> >>From: bartvde@xs4all.nl
>> >>To: "Dharani Babu" <dharanibabus@hotmail.com>
>> >>CC: ms4w-users@lists.maptools.org
>> >>Subject: Re: [ms4w-users] help install apache !!
>> >>Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:58:35 +0100 (CET)
>> >>
>> >>Hi,
>> >>
>> >>you should extract to c:/ms4w/apache (not c:/ms4w/ms4w/apache). Then
>> >>everything should work.
>> >>
>> >>Best regards,
>> >>Bart
>> >>
>> >> > Hi all
>> >> > I am a new user to ms4w . I extracted the package to
>> >> c:/ms4w/ms4w/apache
>> >> > and
>> >> > etc . But i tried running apache.exe from command prompt like this
>> >> > c:/> ms4w/ms4w/apache/bin/apache.exe but i got the following error
>> .
>> >> >
>> >> > ServerRoot must be valid a directory
>> >> > Error at line 57 of apache/conf/httpd.conf file :
>> >> >
>> >> >   The machine is w2000 and the IIS was running so assuming there is
>> >> port
>>
>>> > conflict between IIS and Apache I stopped IIS and tried the same but
>> >> the
>> >> > same error persists !!! So I changed the httpd.conf file's Listen
>>port
>> >> > from
>> >> > 80 to 8080 but the same problem again !!!
>> >> > What is the solution ? and next I saw the folder apache/htdocs and
>> >> > apache/cgi-bin both containing
>> >> > files like phpinfo.php , phpinfo_mapscript36.php and
>> >> > phpinfo_mapscript_40.php and the next folder containing
>> mapserv36.exe
>> >>and
>> >> > mapserv40.exe . So these four files are supposed to be used for
>> >> > customozing
>> >> > our own web  mapping application with MapServer right ? and i dont
>>see
>> >>any
>> >> > MapServer.dll which is widely talked about by the dmsolutions.on.ca
>>..
>> >>So
>> >> > Is
>> >> > it that the ms4w uses MapScript API s ? What is teh difference
>>between
>> >> > usuing mapserver.dll and mapscript .php ?
>> >> > could any one elaborate on this and the general direction i should
>> >>proceed
>> >> > with ? My ultimate aim is to render maps based on the TIGER files .
>> >>Could
>> >> > any one shed some light on this ?
>> >> > With regards and thanks
>> >> > dharani
>> >> >
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