[MS4W-Users] using shptree.exe on a server

[Ian Tidy]

You can run shptree from any path to any subject on another path (but I don’t think a UNC).  You are probably best to have a batch file that you can call which is within you standard path.

The trick is to make sure that the paths where MS4W, the executable and any required DLL is available to the user.

Your batch file could contain something like (I have not tested this)
@echo off
SET OGR_HOME=\ms4w\tools\gdal-ogr
SET PATH=\ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin;\ms4w\tools\gdal-ogr;\ms4w\tools\mapserv;\ms4w\tools\shapelib;\ms4w\proj\bin;\ms4w\tools\shp2tile;\ms4w\tools\shpdiff;\ms4w\tools\avce00;\ms4w\python\gdal;%PATH%
SET GDAL_DATA=\ms4w\gdaldata
SET GDAL_DRIVER_PATH=\ms4w\gdalplugins
SET PROJ_LIB=\ms4w\proj\nad
set SDK_ROOT=%~dp0
set SDK_ROOT=%SDK_ROOT:\\=\%
SET DEST=%SDK_ROOT%lds
set SDK_TOOLS=%SDK_ROOT%tools\
:: echo %SDK_ROOT%
SET PYTHONPATH=%SDK_TOOLS%gdal\python;%SDK_TOOLS%ms\python

"%SHP_TREE%\shptree.exe" %1

I extracted this from a batch file that I use for creating shape files from a WFS feed.

Regards,
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Ian Tidy
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From: ms4w-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org [mailto:ms4w-users-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Mark Volz
Sent: Wednesday, 15 July 2015 2:21 a.m.
To: Richard Greenwood
Cc: ms4w-users at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [MS4W-Users] using shptree.exe on a server

Richard,

I apologize for the confusion.  What I would really like to know is if it is possible to have the shptree executable on the server so that anyone on the network can build the qix files without having a copy of ms4w on their local machine.

The reason why I mentioned connecting ms4w to a network drive is that I thought at one time I read something that MS4W must be installed on the root folder of a computer such as C:\MS4W or D:\MS4W...  So I thought maybe MS4W (or shapetree) might possibly work if we link the network share something like N:\MS4W  as opposed to N:\GISScripts\Update\MS4W.

I doubt it is possible to run shptree and the associated ms4w files on the server, but if it is then it would remove the dependency of having MS4W installed on every computer that might be used to push out updates.
Thank You


Sincerely,
Mark Volz

From: Richard Greenwood [mailto:richard.greenwood at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 8:28 PM
To: Mark Volz
Cc: ms4w-users at lists.maptools.org<mailto:ms4w-users at lists.maptools.org>
Subject: Re: [MS4W-Users] using shptree.exe on a server

I'm pretty sure that shptree can index a shapefile on a network share. But I don't think I follow you.
   “net use n: \\myserver\myshare<file:///\\myserver\myshare>”
Just maps the directory to N: and has nothing to do with shptree. It shouldn't throw any errors and if sucessful you should be able to do
   dir n:\
and see your data, and the
   shptree N:\some.shp
and get some.qix

Rich


On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Mark Volz <MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us<mailto:MarkVolz at co.lyon.mn.us>> wrote:
Hello,

I was wondering can shptree.exe run on a networked server drive?  I would like to move all of my Geoprocessing scripts, including the qix file generation onto a server.  When I tried to run “net use n: \\myserver\myshare<file:///\\myserver\myshare>” I received an error that libmap.dll is missing.

Has anyone had any success with running shptree on a server, or do we have to keep it on our local machine?

Thanks
Mark V

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