Janeks Kamerovskis wrote: >>> Up to now I just worked with windows servers, but now I need to install >>> Mapserver cgi on remote Linux and Apache. >>> In windows I can just copy executable and libs to right directions. >>> Is it possible to do it also for linux - upload required files to cgi- >> bin.
>> In theory you can do it, but in practice you'll probably run into a >> pile of problems. mapserver depends on other programmes and libraries, >> which will probably be missing on the target machine. > How about compiling special standalone Mapserver cgi executable, where all > libs included? > Could it help in such case? Yes, but it's quite a lot you'd need to put there, gdal, geos, proj, perhaps pdflib, perhaps ming... You can't even be sure you'll find gd on the target system. And I don't know how to build such a beast, so I can only suggest you look at http://www.busybox.net/about.html and how they do it. All in all, I think that *all* other solutions and workarounds are easier than this. Change provider. Bribe your current provider to install what you need. Run mapserver on a different machine than the website and transclude the maps in the website. Run mapserver on a different machine than the website and proxy the website from it. Any and all of these should be less of a hassle than what you propose to do. Z
