Peter: Try a MapServer enabled hosting.
You should look for that, not patching an existing installation. Just hit "mapserver enabled hosting" on google and you are done. Ernesto On 9/6/07, Peter Shrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, all: > > I purchased a shard hosting plan a few months ago, and wnted to implement > mapserver. Due to the nature of shared hosting, all I can do is to upload > files. it is unfortunate that they do not allow compiling, installtion, or > change of environmental variables. > > I have been looking around for about a month, and have not found a > solution > yet. > > I tried FWTOOLS, using the approach that Frank Warmerdam indicated > (below), but > with no luck. > > - upload mapserv executable and all the shared libraries somewhere. > - upload proj.4 support files (like epsg init file) somewhere > - create a mapserv wrapper script in the cgi-bin directory which sets > environment variables pointing to various things and then executes > the real mapserv binary. Environment variables would include: > LD_LIBRARY_PATH: needs to point to directory with all the .so files. > PROJ_LIB: needs to point to directory with the proj support files. > > Now I have to come back to this mailing list for help. Basically, I am > looking > for the mapserver cgi and the SO files (for libpng, freetype, > libgd, Zlib, > Proj4, GEOS, GDAL). I will use a wrapper script to define the location of > the > dependencies, using Frank Warmerdam's suggestions. > > I will appreciate it if anyone can email me this type of binary package. > Honestly, I do not know if such package exists. > > Thank you > > Peter > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Luggage? GPS? Comic books? > Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search > http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz >
