| Author: | Jeff McKenna, DM Solutions Group Inc. |
|---|---|
| Contact: | Mailing List |
| Revision: | 1.22 |
| Last Updated: | 2006-05-09 |
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.
Currently, the MS4W installation is considered neither secure nor stable. It should not be used for production purposes. Do not expect to get any support for using this package in such an environment.
The following are included in the base package:
Apache version 2.0.55
PHP version 4.4.3-dev
MapServer 4.8.3 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 7.15.0
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 4.8.3 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=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-7.15.0 fcgi-2.4.0 freetype-2.1.10 gd-2.0.33 gdal-1.3.2 geos-2.2.2 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-4.8.2 ming-0.2a mrsid-5.0.6.955 mysql-5.0.18-win32 PDFlib-Lite-6.0.2 php-4.4.3-dev postgresql-8.1.2 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 Web Server" service is stopping. The "Apache Web Server" service has stopped. Removing the "Apache Web Server" service The "Apache 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 Web Server service is starting. The Apache 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/apache.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/ 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 GDAL support of MrSID files, MS4W >= 1.5.0 includes gdal_MrSID.dll in /ms4w/gdalplugins/ignored/, which is built for MrSID 5.0.6.955.
Download the MrSID SDK 5.0.6.955 dlls for vc7.1 (from http://developer.lizardtech.com/) and extract it on your machine (the same machine that you are running MS4W on). You'll need to create a user account to download the SDK. Look for "GeoExpress SDK for Windows - vc7.1".
Add the following path to the MrSID dlls from that SDK to the PATH environment variable on your machine (modify the beginning of it for your exact install location):
C:\Geo_DSDK-5.0.6.955\lib\Release_md
Move the gdal_MrSID.dll plugin file up one level from /ms4w/gdalplugins/ignored/ into /ms4w/gdalplugins/
Restart Apache to be safe.
For mapfile configuration see http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/raster_data
Use the gdalinfo.exe utility to test if the new MrSID format is available in your GDAL install now:
first make sure to run /ms4w/setenv.bat
run gdalinfo --formats
D:\ms4w>gdalinfo --formats Supported Formats: MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database VRT (rw+): Virtual Raster GTiff (rw+): GeoTIFF NITF (rw+): National Imagery Transmission Format ...
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.
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
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
| Revision | Date | Author | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.00 | 2003/09/10 | DMR | converted from text format |
| 1.01 | 2003/10/18 | CT, DMR | added additional material |
| 1.02 | 2004/07/21 | JM | updated for 0.9 release |
| 1.03 | 2004/11/09 | JM | updated for 1.0 release |
| 1.04 | 2004/11/29 | JM | updated for 1.0.1 upgrade |
| 1.05 | 2004/12/16 | JM | updated for 1.0.2 upgrade |
| 1.06 | 2004/12/22 | JM | updated for 1.0.3 upgrade |
| 1.07 | 2005/05/25 | JM | updated for 1.1 release |
| 1.08 | 2005/06/22 | JM | updated for 1.2 release |
| 1.09 | 2005/09/15 | JM | added not for win98 users, and MS version info |
| 1.10 | 2005/10/26 | JM | converted to rSt/html, added troubleshooting |
| 1.15 | 2006/02/07 | JM | added dll-hell troubleshooting, uninstall note |
| 1.19 | 2006/04/01 | JM | added GDAL/OGR Plugins section |
| 1.20 | 2006/05/04 | JM | added password protection section |
Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Jeff McKenna, DM Solutions Group Inc.
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