| Author: | Jeff McKenna, DM Solutions Group Inc. |
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| Revision: | 1.34 |
| Last Updated: | 2006-10-12 |
Welcome to MS4W, the quick and easy installer for setting up MapServer For Windows and its accompanying applications (e.g., Chameleon, MapLab,etc.). The purpose of this package is to allow novice to advanced MapServer users to quickly install a MapServer development environment on their Windows systems. The reasons for needing to do this are diverse but, in general, this package supports: developers who want to get to a stable state quickly, trainers who need an easily-installed configuration identical across multiple installs, and novices who need help just getting all the needed bits and pieces together.
The MS4W package is designed to perform a full installation of Apache, PHP, MapServer CGI, MapScript (CSharp, Java, PHP, Python), and to provide the capability to install additional applications easily and quickly. The simplest way to do this on Windows is to provide a predetermined directory structure and force everything into that mold.
The directory structure, while fixed within itself, is designed to be somewhat portable. While it needs to be installed at the root of a hard drive, it doesn't have to be the C: drive. Moving the package to the root of a different drive is simple - just copy it there. To move it to a subdirectory is more difficult - you'll need to search for /ms4w in all the files and replace it with your new path.
The design also accommodates simple upgrades to the core package and to applications, without affecting the local configuration or the configuration of other installed applications.
The following are included in the base package:
Apache version 2.2.3
PHP version 5.1.6 (MS4W 2.x) or 4.4.4 (MS4W 1.x)
MapServer 4.10.0 CGI and MapScript (CSharp, Java, PHP, Python)
- support GD 2.0.33, FreeType 2.1.10, GDAL/OGR 1.3.2, PROJ, WMS/WFS, Flash, PDF, ECW3.1, PostGIS, GEOS, libcurl 7.15.1
mapserver utilities
gdal/ogr utilities
proj.4 utilities
shp2tile utility
shapelib utilities
shpdiff utility
PHP_OGR Extension 1.1.1
OWTChart 1.2.0
MapServer version 4.10.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE DEBUG=MSDEBUG
Compiled using Howard Butler's MapServer buildkit
Library Versions Used to build this version of MapServer:
curl-7.15.1 fcgi-2.4.0 freetype-2.1.10 gd-2.0.33 gdal-1.3.2 geos-2.2.3 gettext-0.13 jpeg-6b libecwj2-3.3 libgeotiff-1.2.2 libiconv-1.9.1 libintl-0.11.5 libpng-1.2.8 libxml2-2.6.23.win32 mapserver-4.10.0 ming-0.2a mrsid-6.0.7.1407 mysql-5.0.18-win32 PDFlib-Lite-6.0.2 php-5.1.6 (MS4W 2.x) php-4.4.4 (MS4W 1.x) postgresql-8.1.4 proj-4.4.9 Python-2.4.2 regex-0.12 SWIG-1.3.27 tiff-3.8.0 xerces-c-2.7.0 zlib-1.2.3
Perl, TCL, and Ruby MapScript are not in this MS4W release
If you already have MS4W installed please do the following:
The "Apache MS4W Web Server" service is stopping. The "Apache MS4W Web Server" service has stopped. Removing the "Apache MS4W Web Server" service The "Apache MS4W Web Server" service has been removed successfully.
Please read through the following instructions before starting your installation.
To install the MS4W .zip file, use a compression program (e.g. WinZip) to extract the package at the root of a drive, e.g., drive C:. If successful, you should have a new directory named 'ms4w' at the root of the drive you chose (e.g. C:/ms4w).
Start your MS4W Apache Web Server by running /ms4w/apache-install.bat (at the command line or by double-clicking it). This file installs Apache as a Windows service (called "Apache Web Server") so that it starts whenever your machine is restarted. When executed, a DOS window should pop up with the following message:
The Apache MS4W Web Server service is starting. The Apache MS4W Web Server service was started successfully.
This means that Apache is running and installed as a service.
NOTE for Win95,98,ME users:
You will not be able to install Apache as a service, so instead you will have to manually start Apache each time, by clicking on /ms4w/Apache/bin/httpd.exe. An empty DOS window will open, which means Apache is running. To stop Apache you will have to close this empty DOS window.
To test that Apache is running properly, open your Web browser and find your local host Web service by entering one of the following URLs:
http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/
You should now see the main MS4W page in your Web browser. This gives you general information about your install along with configuration information. If this is your first time using MS4W it is very important that you review the listed "Features" installed within MS4W, and test them by selecting each link found on this page.
Technically, at this point, MS4W is installed! However, as you may have noticed from the MS4W main index.html page, there are no applications running. What this means is that there are no Web applications like MapLab or Chameleon found within MS4W's Web-accessible directory, /ms4w/apps/. The MS4W-configured Web applications can be found on http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html as separate zip files.
To install these Web application into /ms4w/apps/ all that is required is to unzip the Web application compressed file at the same root directory as MS4W (e.g., C:).
Two things should happen when uncompressing this file. First, the Web application directory should appear within /ms4w/apps/. Second, a new httpd_*.conf file should be added to /ms4w/httpd.d/httpd_*.conf. (The /httpd.d/ directory contains Apache configuration files that define which files on your computer/server are Web-accessible. For each Web application that you install, a new configuration file will be found.)
The definitions of these Web-accessible directories are called Web Aliases. In order to activate a Web Alias you must restart Apache. To test your latest installed application, go to the MS4W main index.html page (i.e., http://localhost/). In the applications section you should now find a link to the application you just installed. Select the link to the recently installed application to see if it is configured correctly. Another option is find the Web Alias for your application and call it from your Web browser directly. For example, if you have installed the latest MS4W version of MapLab, the chances are the Web Alias is "maplab". To go to the MapLab index page, simply enter http://localhost/maplab/.
Note: Applications with configuration files (e.g., MapLab and Chameleon) generally do not require any editing of their files in order to work. Just unzip to the appropriate driver root and restart Apache.
WARNING: It is very possible that you may wish (but not encouraged!) to run multiple versions of the same product. For example, Maplab 2.0 (mapserver_36) vs. MapLab 2.1 (mapserver_4.0). When installing these ms4w MapLab application packages, you will notice when unzipping MapLab that the httpd_maplab.conf file found under ./ms4w/httpd.d/ will be overwritten by the MapLab you are currently installing. The reason for this is that the MapLab Alias stays the same from version to new version of MapLab. So, if you overwrite the httpd_maplab.conf when unzipping and then restart Apache, you will get the latest version of Maplab that you just installed. To run both MapLab simply follow the instructions in Step 7.
You also can create new Web Alias(es). To configure your own personal Web Alias(es), follow the instructions in /ms4w/httpd.d/README_HTTPD.txt
For OGR support of Oracle, MS4W >= 1.5.0 includes ogr_OCI.dll in /ms4w/gdalplugins/ignored/, which is built for Oracle 10g.
For OGR support of ESRI's ArcSDE, MS4W >= 1.5.0 includes ogr_SDE.dll in /ms4w/gdalplugins/ignored/, which is built for ArcSDE 9.1.
MS4W >= 1.5.0 includes pre-built support files for csharp, java, and python mapscript. In order to make use of these, however, they must be installed and configured in the appropriate locations on your system.
Obviously, in order to run Python mapscript, you need to have a python installed. The Python mapscript support files included in this distribution are built for Python 2.4.x; they will not work with earlier or later Python versions. Windows Python binaries can be obtained free of charge from ActiveState or the Python site.
See the respective sites for Python installation information.
Unpack /ms4w/Apache/mapscript/python/mapscript*win32.zip in a safe location
In the directory structure that results from the above step, navigate to \Python-2.4.2\Lib\site-packages
Copy the three files into the /ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin directory.
Place any python cgi scripts that you want to run under ms4w in the /ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin directory, and add a "shebang" line at the top of each script. See the section on Configuring Apache to run Python scripts below for shebang-line details.
Unpack /ms4w/Apache/mapscript/python/mapscript*win32.zip in a safe location
In the directory structure that results from the above step, navigate to \Python-2.4.2\Lib\site-packages
Copy the three files into the site-packages directory of your Python 2.4.x installation (eg., C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages)
Add <drive_letter>:\ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin to your system's PYTHONPATH environment variable.
You have a couple of options here:
This may be the preferred approach if you have multiple Python installations on your machine.
Add a "shebang line" to the top of each python cgi script in /ms4w/apache/cgi-bin. This line must be the first line in the script, and it must begin with #! followed by the path to your systems python executable. For example:
#!c:/python24/python.exe -u
The -u option shown above causes the script to use unbuffered output, which is generally what you need in web-serving contexts.
This approach obviates the need to edit every python script in your cgi-bin directory; however, it may be problematic if you have multiple Python installations.
Add the following line to the end of ms4w/Apache/conf/httpd.conf:
ScriptInterpreterSource Registry
You may also want to add these:
SetEnv PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1 PassEnv PYTHONPATH
The first of the above lines causes your python scripts to use unbuffered output (which you probably want), while the second passes the value of your system's PYTHONPATH environment variable through to Apache's environment (if set).
Follow these steps to test your Python MapScript installation:
Move the file /ms4w/python/test-cgi-mapscript.py into the /ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin/ folder.
Open the file in a text editor.
Edit the first line of that script to point to your proper Python path.
In your web browser goto http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test-cgi-mapscript.py
The script tests that the Python CGI is working, and that the mapscript module can be successfully imported.
If successful you will see an HTML page listing several environment settings on your machine, as well a list of the Python MapScript module attributes at the bottom of the page.
Python Troubleshooting:
Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library '/ms4w/Apache/php/extensions/php_mapscript_48.dll'
Verify that the dll in question exists in the specified location (/ms4w/Apache/php/extensions/). If this dll is not in that location, you might have to modify the application to point to a different version of the dll (e.g. you might have php_mapscript_48.dll in the extensions directory, and your application might be configured for php_mapscript_46.dll which is not in the extensions directory).
This php_mapscript dll requires several other dlls, and the problem may be that one is missing on your system. In order to hopefully get more information on what dll is missing, go to a command prompt, and do the following:
cd ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin php C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/phpinfo_mapscript_**.php
(replace ** with the mapscript version)
A windows error window should open with a message like:
The dynamic link library ***** could not be found in the specified path...
Locate this missing dll and copy it either to /ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin/ or your system32 folder.
If you are still unsure what dll is causing this unable to load dynamic library error, a useful utility to find what associated dlls are missing on your system is Dependency Walker. Download the utility, execute the exe, and open your php_mapscript dll.
The dynamic link library MSVCP71.dll could not be found in the specified path...
This is a microsoft runtime library that is apparently not on all Windows systems by default. Download the dll (possibly from here) and copy it to your System32 directory.
Clicking on apache-install.bat flashes a DOS window and does not install the service
To see the exact error message, open a Command window, and execute the 'apache-install.bat' file from a DOS prompt.
cd ms4w apache-install.bat
Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down
Apache with MS4W is configured to use port 80. Your system might be already using this port (IIS could cause this for example). If you want to change the port that Apache uses modify the following file:
/ms4w/Apache/conf/httpd.conf line 120: Listen 80
TCPView is an example of shareware that lets you see how the ports on your machine are being used.
The procedure entry point xxxx could not be located in the dynamic link library xxx.dll
Make sure that MapServer (or the utility that you are trying to use) is actually using the 'xxx.dll' file that is part of the MS4W package. You could be experiencing 'dll hell' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_hell) where MS4W is actually finding an older dll on your system. Try renaming the other dll(s) of the same name, keeping the one in MS4W as is, and retrying your application/command.
Other Problems...
The following section explains how to add password authentication to your MS4W application. However there are many other possible settings in Apache for this, so please consult the Apache HTTP Server documentation.
Here are the minimal step for password protection:
Modify your application's httpd_xxx.conf file, so that "AllowOverride None" is replaced with "AllowOverride AuthConfig", such as:
Alias /gmap/ "/ms4w/apps/gmap/htdocs/" <Directory "/ms4w/apps/gmap/htdocs/"> AllowOverride AuthConfig Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews </Directory>
Create a password file.
open a DOS command window, and go to Apache's bin directory
enter the following (replace "jeff" with the username you want to create, press ENTER and you will be prompted for a password to create):
C:/ms4w/Apache/bin> htpasswd -c htpasswd.txt jeff
Create the htaccess file.
create a file in your application directory (/ms4w/apps/gmap/htdocs/ in this example) named '.htaccess'
the file should contain (you can modify it however you wish though):
AuthType Basic AuthUserFile C:/ms4w/Apache/bin/htpasswd.txt AuthName "Password Required" require valid-user
Restart Apache
Access your application in a web browser.
Troubleshooting:
some Windows versions may have difficulty with the '.htaccess' filename, so you might try naming it something else, but you would have to modify Apache's httpd.conf file (/ms4w/Apache/conf/httpd.conf) and add your filename, such as:
AccessFileName .htaccess yourfilename
'htaccess.acl' is recommended, such as:
AccessFileName .htaccess htaccess.acl
a good reference is http://sniptools.com/tutorials/windows-apache-and-htaccess-authentication
The following applications come with a pre-configured install package for MS4W. Go to http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html to find the desired package, and extract the packages to the root of the drive that MS4W is installed on (e.g. C:).
- Chameleon
- GMap Sample PHP/MapScript Application
- ka-Map
- MapLab
- MapServer Itasca Demo Application
- OGC Workshop
- FIST - Flexible Internet Spatial Template
- p.mapper
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