Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] hosted website installation

[Tara Athan]

I tried following the instructions in http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/how-tos/gis-on-a-shared-hosting-environme nt-the-magic-of-not-having-root/ I got as far as the PostgreSQL install and then I ran into a problem here: setenv LDFLAGS -lstdc++ -bash: setenv: command not found I am trying this option of the 2 Aaron suggested because the web server I am on has an older version of gd than what is  required for mapserver, and I don't know how to mesh that with an FWTools installation. Tara Aaron Racicot wrote: Tara, Coming to this conversation late, so I am not sure what you have tried. I have had success on a shared host two ways: 1) Install FWTools as it contains Mapserver and GDAL and is self contained. http://fwtools.maptools.org/ 2) I have played with static library paths via RPATH when compiling from source with success in the past. I even documented an install on DreamHost (pretty much the cheapest of the cheap) that worked. http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/how-tos/gis-on-a-shared-hosting-environme nt-the-magic-of-not-having-root/ Hope these help... A +----------------------------------------+ Aaron Racicot - GIS Programmer 360.221.2441 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] +----------------------------------------+ z - p u l l e y pobox 1614 langley wa 98260 www.reprojected.com +----------------------------------------+ -----Original Message----- From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Tara Athan Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:09 PM To: MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] hosted website installation Additional information that may or may not be relevant: my ISP responded as follows Dear Customer, There is no server side limitation to paths. You may specify custom paths to any library that you have need of using. The only limitation would be on the library itself (whether it could be accessed from an alternate location) and the program that needs to access the library. So basically they are saying it must be either gdal's fault or MapServer's fault that mapserver cannot access the gdal library from an alternate location. Anyone care to weigh in on this? I guess I am giving up on the installation of Mapserver on the hosted website and will have to get some help from a GIS hosting service (or set up my own web server). But it seems like this should have been doable. Anyway, thanks for the help- I certainly learned a lot in the attempt... Tara Tara Athan wrote: I tried this- no change. I tried getting support from my ISP, but they are unwilling to help. (mapserver? we don't know anything about that- ask the support forum) Has anyone else had success or problems with bringing up MapServer on a hosted website? Tara Gregor Mosheh wrote: Tara Athan wrote: I found libgdal.so.1 in /home/alttwois/local/lib On running ./mapserver -v, I get the same error message as before /home/alttwois/public_html/cgi-bin/mapserv.real: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Well that's bizarre. How about this? LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/alttwois/local/lib" /home/alttwois/public_html/cgi-bin/mapserv.real -v That's all one line. That sets the linker path on the command line, then runs the command. -- My e-mail delivery has been unreliable lately, so I am asking for return receipts from all my email messages. OK'ing the return receipt lets me know that my message was delivered. Thank you. Tara Athan Principal, Alternatives to Invasive Species [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-485-1198 PO Box 415 Redwood Valley, CA 95470