MS4W - MapServer 4 Windows

Introduction

Welcome to MS4W v1.0.3, the MapServer package for Windows. This package is intended to simplify your life if you are:

• a novice mapserver user who doesn't want to learn how to set up map server windows just yet ...
• any mapserver user who needs a quick and dirty installation on Windows ...
• you're giving a workshop and you want 15 identical machines quickly ...

In any of these cases, and probably more, MS4W can help you. However, a few notes about this package:

• This is not a true installer, it will not modify any file or registry setting outside of the ms4w directory
• This is not a true installer, it will not install to any location. It *** MUST *** be installed at the root of one of the drives on your system
• This is not a true installer, it will only unzip a package to your harddrive overwriting absolutely everything in its way.
• This is not a secure, stable installation and should *** NOT *** be used for production servers.

Features

MS4W contains default installations of Apache, PHP, MapServ, MapScript, and some sample applications. It is structured in such a way as to facilitate upgrading individual components without messing up the rest of the install. The base installer package comes pre-configured with the following software:

• Apache 2.0.50
• PHP 4.3.10
• mapserv 4.2 at /cgi-bin/mapserv_42.exe
• mapserv 4.4 at /cgi-bin/mapserv_44.exe
• php_mapscript_42.dll (phpinfo)
• php_mapscript_44.dll (phpinfo)
• mapserv utils at \ms4w\tools\mapserv-utils which include:
• legend.exe
• scalebar.exe
• shp2img.exe
• shptree.exe
• shptreevis.exe
• sortshp.exe
• tile4ms.exe
• OGR utilities at \ms4w\tools\ogr-utils which include:
• ogrinfo.exe
• ogr2ogr.exe
• ogrtindex.exe
• OWTChart utility:
• introduction
• owtchart.exe
• gifsample.exe
• OGR/PHP Extension (documentation) (phpinfo)

Applications

There are currently 2 ms4w applications installed.

Chameleon 1.99 Beta URLS:

Chameleon Administration.

Chameleon Documentation.

Chameleon HelpViewer.

Chameleon Sample Applications.

CWC2 Service Instance.

pgsql75win - Win32 PostgreSQL 7.5 / PostGIS

NOTE that this package is distributed as is

• installed in \ms4w\apps\pgsql75win
• instructions in \ms4w\apps\pgsql75win\README_PG.txt