Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: P Kishor wrote: So you have 15 copies of the binary floating around on your computer. What a nightmare. If you upgrade, you have to make 15 copies of the new version and replace the old version. What would happen when you publish the 150th geologic map? Use a single binary, and use a wrapper (or the env variable) to get the right query. I do not believe there are handy wrappers for Windows and the only way I have been able to get SetEnvIf to work is to make copies of mapserv.exe with different names. I maintain a batch file about our services with lines like COPY mapserv.exe WMS_service1 etc. and then I only need to run the batch after update and publishing the 150th service does not change anything. If you have php it's quite easy to write a small wrapper for it. See http://www.mapserver.org/ogc/mapscript.html#php-example so the only thing to do is to write the wrappers once and you have a single setup of Mapserver. Thomas BTW: The Example should be updated - I think php_mapscript_4.10.0.dll is out of date. The name of the .dll is just php_mapscript.dll. ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
I'm pretty sure you can use the rewrite module in IIS to achieve what you need. I use it myself for a couple of REST webservices. Do note that I am using IIS 7. Take a look here : http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-the-url-rewrite-module/ On 4 November 2010 07:53, Waberzeck, Thomas thomas.waberz...@liag-hannover.de wrote: Jukka Rahkonen wrote: P Kishor wrote: So you have 15 copies of the binary floating around on your computer. What a nightmare. If you upgrade, you have to make 15 copies of the new version and replace the old version. What would happen when you publish the 150th geologic map? Use a single binary, and use a wrapper (or the env variable) to get the right query. I do not believe there are handy wrappers for Windows and the only way I have been able to get SetEnvIf to work is to make copies of mapserv.exe with different names. I maintain a batch file about our services with lines like COPY mapserv.exe WMS_service1 etc. and then I only need to run the batch after update and publishing the 150th service does not change anything. If you have php it's quite easy to write a small wrapper for it. See http://www.mapserver.org/ogc/mapscript.html#php-example so the only thing to do is to write the wrappers once and you have a single setup of Mapserver. Thomas BTW: The Example should be updated - I think php_mapscript_4.10.0.dll is out of date. The name of the .dll is just php_mapscript.dll. ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
The PHP mapscript wrapper looks promising. Thanks. The examples would need to be combined into one php file to handle both GetMap and GetCapabilities requests. Seems doable. I'm not a programmer and didn't want to get into mapscript, however, modifying this script template doesn't seem too difficult (if you already have PHP, which my server does.) I'm not a big fan of copying and renaming the mapserv.exe file but it does work well. We only publish a handful of services and do not expect to significantly increase in the future. If we do, scripting a batch file would work just as well. This is relatively easy and without the need to install (re: maintenance, security) or learn additional programming languages. For me, it's also important to have short, easily readable URLs to send out to people that use our WMS services. I do not want the extra ?map=mymap parameters at the end of the URLs. For one reason or another, things always get screwed up when people start pasting these URLs into their desktop GIS or other apps. Simpler the better, even if it's not elegant or involves slightly more work on my part. - John ** John Callahan, Research Scientist Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu ** On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Waberzeck, Thomas thomas.waberz...@liag-hannover.de wrote: Jukka Rahkonen wrote: P Kishor wrote: So you have 15 copies of the binary floating around on your computer. What a nightmare. If you upgrade, you have to make 15 copies of the new version and replace the old version. What would happen when you publish the 150th geologic map? Use a single binary, and use a wrapper (or the env variable) to get the right query. I do not believe there are handy wrappers for Windows and the only way I have been able to get SetEnvIf to work is to make copies of mapserv.exe with different names. I maintain a batch file about our services with lines like COPY mapserv.exe WMS_service1 etc. and then I only need to run the batch after update and publishing the 150th service does not change anything. If you have php it's quite easy to write a small wrapper for it. See http://www.mapserver.org/ogc/mapscript.html#php-example so the only thing to do is to write the wrappers once and you have a single setup of Mapserver. Thomas BTW: The Example should be updated - I think php_mapscript_4.10.0.dll is out of date. The name of the .dll is just php_mapscript.dll. ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
[mapserver-users] map file paths
Is there a way of abbreviating pathnames to the map file? For instance, my URL to produce a map is http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=//fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DH ildebrand/geoprocessing_server/MapServer/sample.mapmode=map In my apache configuration file I have //fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/ aliased to /test/ but the alias does not seem to work with CGI. I'm just wondering if there is a workaround so that I don't need to specify the whole file path in my URL. Thanks. === David V. Hildebrand Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (403) 782-8239 www.afsc.ca about:www.afsc.ca http://www.afsc.ca http://www.afsc.ca/ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and/or privileged information. Please contact Agriculture Financial Services Corporation immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
Hi, See http://mapserver.org/ogc/wms_server.html#reference-section and there about wrapper shell script. -Jukka Rahkonen- -Alkuperäinen viesti- Lähettäjä: mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org puolesta: David Hildebrand Lähetetty: ke 3.11.2010 22:42 Vastaanottaja: mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org Aihe: [mapserver-users] map file paths Is there a way of abbreviating pathnames to the map file? For instance, my URL to produce a map is http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=//fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DH ildebrand/geoprocessing_server/MapServer/sample.mapmode=map In my apache configuration file I have //fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/ aliased to /test/ but the alias does not seem to work with CGI. I'm just wondering if there is a workaround so that I don't need to specify the whole file path in my URL. Thanks. === David V. Hildebrand Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (403) 782-8239 www.afsc.ca about:www.afsc.ca http://www.afsc.ca http://www.afsc.ca/ This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and/or privileged information. Please contact Agriculture Financial Services Corporation immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. Please consider the environment before printing this email. ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David Hildebrand david.hildebr...@afsc.ca wrote: Is there a way of abbreviating pathnames to the map file? For instance, my URL to produce a map is http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=//fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/MapServer/sample.mapmode=map In my apache configuration file I have //fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/ aliased to /test/ but the alias does not seem to work with CGI. I’m just wondering if there is a workaround so that I don’t need to specify the whole file path in my URL. Thanks. === David V. Hildebrand Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (403) 782-8239 In your Apache httpd.conf add: SetEnv MY_MAP C:/path/to/my/mapfile.map and then your URL can be: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=MYMAPmode=map Shorter URL, better security. Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
Basically what I do is copy and rename mapserv.exe to some name I want in the URL. Then, if a request goes to that file, set the MS_MAPFILE variable to the relevant map file. This has worked well for me so far. For example, my organization recently published our 15th geologic map of out state. I want people to refer to it as geomap15. Therefore, I copied and renamed mapserv.exe to geomap15 (no exe extension, file still in cgi-bin directory). Then, I have the following in my httpd.conf file: SetEnvIf Request_URI /cgi-bin/geomap15 MS_MAPFILE=C:/pathtomapfile/geomap15.map My URLs then look something like: http://maps.dgs.udel.edu/cgi-bin/geomap15? (This map file in action here: http://www.dgs.udel.edu/datasets/dgs-geologic-map-no-15-georgetown-quadrangle-dataset ) - John ** John Callahan, Research Scientist Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu ** On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David Hildebrand david.hildebr...@afsc.ca wrote: Is there a way of abbreviating pathnames to the map file? For instance, my URL to produce a map is http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=//fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/MapServer/sample.mapmode=map In my apache configuration file I have //fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/ aliased to /test/ but the alias does not seem to work with CGI. I’m just wondering if there is a workaround so that I don’t need to specify the whole file path in my URL. Thanks. === David V. Hildebrand Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (403) 782-8239 In your Apache httpd.conf add: SetEnv MY_MAP C:/path/to/my/mapfile.map and then your URL can be: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=MYMAPmode=map Shorter URL, better security. Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:20 PM, John Callahan john.calla...@udel.edu wrote: Basically what I do is copy and rename mapserv.exe to some name I want in the URL. Then, if a request goes to that file, set the MS_MAPFILE variable to the relevant map file. This has worked well for me so far. For example, my organization recently published our 15th geologic map of out state. I want people to refer to it as geomap15. Therefore, I copied and renamed mapserv.exe to geomap15 (no exe extension, file still in cgi-bin directory). So you have 15 copies of the binary floating around on your computer. What a nightmare. If you upgrade, you have to make 15 copies of the new version and replace the old version. What would happen when you publish the 150th geologic map? Use a single binary, and use a wrapper (or the env variable) to get the right query. Then, I have the following in my httpd.conf file: SetEnvIf Request_URI /cgi-bin/geomap15 MS_MAPFILE=C:/pathtomapfile/geomap15.map My URLs then look something like: http://maps.dgs.udel.edu/cgi-bin/geomap15? (This map file in action here: http://www.dgs.udel.edu/datasets/dgs-geologic-map-no-15-georgetown-quadrangle-dataset) - John ** John Callahan, Research Scientist Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu ** On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David Hildebrand david.hildebr...@afsc.ca wrote: Is there a way of abbreviating pathnames to the map file? For instance, my URL to produce a map is http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=//fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/MapServer/sample.mapmode=map In my apache configuration file I have //fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/ aliased to /test/ but the alias does not seem to work with CGI. I’m just wondering if there is a workaround so that I don’t need to specify the whole file path in my URL. Thanks. === David V. Hildebrand Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (403) 782-8239 In your Apache httpd.conf add: SetEnv MY_MAP C:/path/to/my/mapfile.map and then your URL can be: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=MYMAPmode=map Shorter URL, better security. Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu --- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science === ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
Re: [mapserver-users] map file paths
John, Puneet, Being able to leave the .exe extension off in Windows is new to me and medium cool. Based on some rather foggy recollection, I think that it is limited to Apache. I don't think it works under IIS. But it's handy if you're developing on Windows and serving on *NIX. I'm kind of with Puneet in that I don't think multiple copies of binaries is generally good advise. However, under Windows (Apache or IIS) there is far less flexibility in wrapper scripts[1] than under *NIX, so I can see the appeal. Regards, Rich [1] The most common wrapper under Windows in an ASP script, which not only restricts you to IIS, but ASP has been superseded by ASPX, and I haven't seen an ASPX wrapper yet. You can install Perl (I know Puneet doesn't think a computer is worth booting if it doesn't have Perl) but that's just one more dependency for most Windows users. And it seems like there should be an option to wrap a CGI in PHP, but I have yet to find it. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:20 PM, John Callahan john.calla...@udel.edu wrote: Basically what I do is copy and rename mapserv.exe to some name I want in the URL. Then, if a request goes to that file, set the MS_MAPFILE variable to the relevant map file. This has worked well for me so far. For example, my organization recently published our 15th geologic map of out state. I want people to refer to it as geomap15. Therefore, I copied and renamed mapserv.exe to geomap15 (no exe extension, file still in cgi-bin directory). Then, I have the following in my httpd.conf file: SetEnvIf Request_URI /cgi-bin/geomap15 MS_MAPFILE=C:/pathtomapfile/geomap15.map My URLs then look something like: http://maps.dgs.udel.edu/cgi-bin/geomap15? (This map file in action here: http://www.dgs.udel.edu/datasets/dgs-geologic-map-no-15-georgetown-quadrangle-dataset) - John ** John Callahan, Research Scientist Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu ** On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David Hildebrand david.hildebr...@afsc.ca wrote: Is there a way of abbreviating pathnames to the map file? For instance, my URL to produce a map is http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=//fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/MapServer/sample.mapmode=map In my apache configuration file I have //fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/ aliased to /test/ but the alias does not seem to work with CGI. I’m just wondering if there is a workaround so that I don’t need to specify the whole file path in my URL. Thanks. === David V. Hildebrand Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (403) 782-8239 In your Apache httpd.conf add: SetEnv MY_MAP C:/path/to/my/mapfile.map and then your URL can be: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=MYMAPmode=map Shorter URL, better security. Rich -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users -- Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com www.greenwoodmap.com ___ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
