Hi Leigh, I have not idea about Fedora... with Ubuntu it was a simple apt-get install... with GIS repo...that's all... all working fine... In my case I had to build gdal and mapserver as I needed Oracle drivers too.... and the installation was very straight forward...
What OS do mapservers developers use ? On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Leigh Holcombe < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I've been trying to learn the MapServer software for a few weeks now. > Mostly, I've been running some examples from Bill Kropla's book, but I've > also been trying out some things on my own. I'm running version 5.6.5 on > Fedora 13. > > My first question is about SELinux context. After yum installation, the > mapserv executable found in /usr/sbin has a context of > system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0. However, this causes serious problems for > SELinux. After trying numerous modifications, I have found that > unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_unconfined_script_exec_t:s0 works - however, > according to documentation, this is just barely better than turning SELinux > off. Can you offer any advice about setting this properly? While SELinux > is not crucial to my practice development, I feel it's a good idea to learn > it. > > Secondly, I am having trouble loading map images without forms. I have a > properly configured virtual host, whose docroot is /var/www/html/nwss.dev. > My cgi directory is /var/www/cgi-bin, and my mapfile is located in > /var/www/html/nwss.dev/mapserver_test. According to the documentation, the > path passed to the executable should be the path relative to the cgi > location. I take this to mean that either the absolute path above or the > relative path ../html/nwss.dev/mapserver_test should work. However, it does > not. Here is the HTML code I am trying to use (without < >): > > img src=" > http://www.nwss.dev/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=../html/nwss.dev/mapserver_test/map_13.map?mode=map"; > width="800" height="800" border="0" > > The web section (is it necessary in this example?) of my mapfile is: > WEB > TEMPLATE "/var/www/html/nwss.dev/mapserver_test/map_13.html" > IMAGEPATH "/var/www/html/nwss.dev/mapserver_test/tmp/" > IMAGEURL "/mapserver_test/tmp/" > END #end web > > Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. But based on what I've read, it seems > right. Help! Thanks for your time. > > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > -- Sebastian E. Ovide
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