On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:01 PM, joel collins <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all for the responses. Perhaps I am overthinking my problem. > > Lets say my only requirement was to get mapserver running with the > latest versions of PHP and apache. How would I go about accomplishing > this? Would I download ms4w, apache, and php, and try to get them all > to talk to each other? Or does ms4w have some special configuration > that only the version of apache that comes bundled with it will work > out of the box?
As Jeff noted, you can just use MS4W and that's surely the path of least resistance. Or you can download and install Apache and PHP separately and just use the mapserv binaries in cgi-bin from the MS4W distribution, and maybe the http*.conf files as guidance for your own setup. Having setup a lot of MapServers over the last 10 years it is my personal experience that Apache is easier to setup and maintain than IIS. I'm not sure why MS4W has the warnings that it is primarily for development and not hardened for production use, but I wouldn't let those warnings discourage you from using it on a production server. Rich -- Richard Greenwood [email protected] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
