Re: [mapserver-users] port from Apache to IIS

2009-04-08 Thread Barend Kobben
Hi,

Thi worked last year  for me, but I run IIS6. If not much changed between 6
and 7, it might help you:

0) Get the latest binaries (eg. the MS4W installation or any other) and
install
1) Create a virtual directory in IIS pointing to the dir where mapserv.exe
resides (eg. when using ms4w it's C:\ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin) and give it an
appropriate alias name alias; for instance cgi-bin.
2) Set the execute permissions on this virtual directory to Scripts and
Executables
3) Accept the virtual directory
4) Go to Web Service Extensions in the IIS service manager
5) Select Add a new web service extension. On the required files tab, add
C:\YourMapserverInstalldir\mapserv.exe
6) Set it to allow
7) Through the security tab of the mapserver install directory, give IIS_WPG
(a standard system usergroup) read/write and execute permission on ALL the
underlying sub-directories
7a) go to IIS manager
7b) go to the server's Web Server Extensions
7c) choose add a new Web Service Extension...
7d) name it mapserver_cgi or similar, and press Add.. near the
required files field.
7e) find the mapserv.exe again (look for CGI's not for dll's!) and press
OK
7f) set it's status to Allowed.
8) Restart the World Wide Web publishing service in the services section
of the administrative tools
9) Test mapserv by running http:\\yourserver\yourmapservaliasdir\mapserv.exe
If you get the message No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set,
but empty. Mapserver under IIS is ready to go!


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On 08-04-09 07:18, Jessie Xu t-zhe...@microsoft.com wrote:

 I'd like to have mapserver running on IIS 7 and want to know how? I saw an
 article called 'IIS setup for Mapserver' but it is written in 2005 based on
 IIS 5. Could someone give me a hand to figure out how to port from Apache to
 IIS 7? What changes should be made to config files, virtual directories and
 permissions, etc?
 
 Thanks for help!
 
 Jessie
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Re: [mapserver-users] use SLD to dynamic label switching

2009-03-06 Thread Barend Kobben
One thing to care care of if you use SLD is having not much to do
with the SLDs themselves, but with TMP file settings.

Using SLDs is dependent on the correct setting of the two settings
 IMAGEPATH  -- where the mapserver software puts the SLD and other temporary
files
 IMAGEURL -- where the web browser and other http services pick them up.

Setting these incorrectly, and more importantly their security setting
incorrrectly, will normally give no problems, but when using SLDs (and also
in other cases, eg. when chaining Mapserver to external WMS and WFS
services), they will make MS malfunction, but SILENTLY (ie. No error
messages).

Eg. in our set ups of a WMS with external SLD they are set as follows:

For  a *nix setup ( MacOSX) with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  Apache:
WEB
IMAGEPATH /Users/kobben/Sites/ms_tmp/
IMAGEURL http://localhost/~kobben/ms_tmp/;
##
METADATA
   [all your web metadata...]
END #metadata
END #web

For a Win box with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  IIS:
  IMAGEPATH C:/tmp/ms_tmp/
  IMAGEURL http://geoserver.itc.nl/ms_tmp/;

The IMAGEPATh is a directory that is reacheable by Mapserver at this real
location (in this case expressed as Unix BSD path on my MacOSX or as  UNC
path on Win) and that has read  write access set  for the Mapserver
process. Eg. on the Winbox it should have write access for the anonymous
system service account under which Mapserver runs (usually something like
SERVERNAME\IWAM_SERVERNAME).

You can test this by seeing if files with names like) are being created when
you request the WMS with external SLD. If they are the IMAGEPATH celarly
works. Then test if you can point a browser to the IMAGEURL and pick up the
tmp file. If that worsk the IMAGEURL is also OK. Now it should work...

Hope this helps.


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On 05-03-09 16:54, Balázs Bámer bamerbal...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 I have a WMS service
 
 http://att-it.homelinux.net:22080/cgi-bin/spatial?SERVICE=WMSVERSION=1.1.1RE
 QUEST=GetMapLAYERS=szerkesztheto,csakolv,pontSTYLES=SRS=epsg:23700BBOX=420
 000,4,95,37WIDTH=938HEIGHT=591FORMAT=image/pngSLD=http://att-i
 t.homelinux.net:22080/sld/spatialszerkeszthetoproba.xml
 
 Mapfile is here, the layer in question is szerkesztheto
 http://att-it.homelinux.net:22080/spatial.map
 
 which works without the SLD request part and does what I want. I want
 to use the SLD to alter rendering colors and add labels, because I
 beleive that this would be more efficient than having a geometry layer
 and a separate annotation one. Moreover, I want to try SLD.
 
 So with SLD the layer in question disappears. Inspecting the
 transformed layer (written in /tmp)
 http://att-it.homelinux.net:22080/spatialsld3.map
 the layer szerkesztheto is turned into annotation type which I
 didn't want. But even being this type, no labels are shown.
 
 Can this SLD trick be done, and if yes, where am I wrong?
 
 Thank you in advance!
 best regards: Balázs
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Re: [mapserver-users] How to pimp WMS meta information?

2008-09-26 Thread Barend Kobben
FYI, the valid way to extend the GetCapabilities is to use the
VendorSpecificCapabilities /  element. (See the WMS spec on the OGC pages
www.opengeospatial.org)


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On 25-09-08 20:23, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

  
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
 Jochen Topf
 Sent: 25 September, 2008 9:49 AM
 To: Markus Spring
 Cc: Mapserver-users
 Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] How to pimp WMS meta information?
 
 On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:16:03AM +0200, Markus Spring wrote:
 trying to set up a multi-map service based WMS mapservices and
 OpenLayers, I would like to retrieve user-defined meta information
 from a map via the GetCapabilities request.
 
 For example, if I define
 
METADATA
   WMS_TITLE   Palliativstationen
   WMS_ONLINERESOURCE  http://gis.local/wms/palliativ;
   WMS_SRS epsg:31468
 
   WMS_SHOW_QUERY_IN   large_popup
 
 END
 
 I would like to retrieve the value large_popup of
 WMS_SHOW_QUERY_IN
 through the GetCapabilities call. The background idea is that this
 information could be used by my application but should not
 harm other 
 people's use of the WMS service.
 
 Is there any viable way to accomplish this with a mapserver
 based WMS service?
 
 I have used the WMS keywords on a WMS layer to add special
 infos only needed for my application. Not the cleanest
 approach, because other applications will, of course, also
 see those special keywords you put in, but as a workaround it is ok.
 
 Would be nice if there was an official way to do this, though.
 
 
 Out of the box, MapServer will return a well-formed, valid XML document
 which obeys the WMS standard.
 
 Having said this, you could use mapscript WxS
 (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wxs_mapscript) to, on
 GetCapabilities, intercept the request/response mechanism and write out
 a modified GetCapbilities XML document, adding in your own XML elements
 and definitions, i.e.:
 
 Layer
  Namefoo/Name
  Titlebar/Title
  MyProperty name=WMS_SHOW_QUERY_INlarge_popup/MyProperty
 ...
 
 This would work, with the assumptions that:
 
 1./ a WMS Capabilities parser which is doing DTD checking would choke on
 this, as it is not part of the WMS DTD
 2./ if there is no DTD checking, the Capabilities will be processed,
 only 'aware' clients would know what to do with this info
 
 Of course, if you want to be to-spec 100%, there are ways to extend DTDs
 with inline ENTITY's, etc. :)
 
 Hope this helps.
 
 ..Tom
 
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Re: [mapserver-users] How to pimp WMS meta information?

2008-09-26 Thread Barend Kobben
Ah, that might be true, never tried it. I just followed up on the comment
about using mapscript to alter the Getcapabilities.xml, and reminded you
that the VendorSpecificCapabilities /  element would be the place to go if
you don't want a Validator to choke on the xml you've created...

Barend


On 26-09-08 09:27, Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:05:06AM +0200, Barend Kobben wrote:
 FYI, the valid way to extend the GetCapabilities is to use the
 VendorSpecificCapabilities /  element. (See the WMS spec on the OGC pages
 www.opengeospatial.org)
 
 And I'd rather use that, but as far as I know you can't set this from a
 Mapserver map file?
 
 Jochen


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Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] MapFile2XML conversion - WAS: mapObject serialization in C# (variant)

2008-06-11 Thread Barend Kobben
Hi Bob,

YES, by all means do move to XML. I think this would be a very important
step forward (and my first guess is it would be not too complicated, but you
never know...). 

I do see how some might be attracted to having an DB storage too, but I
would urge you to always have that as an alternative, not as instead-of:
keep the main configuration mechanism (XML-)file based! In many use cases
there's no need for a DB and that would mean you'd have tho have a DB plus
all its hassle, only for the configuration part. Also the current file-base
config is ideal in situations were many people need to work on the one MS,
such as in our educational setup, where we have many students working on
their own config files in their private dirs, and they don't need to touch
the 'main' MS setup on the server.

Actually, what are your reasons for preferring an SQL sdolution over the
file based one...?


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On 10-06-08 20:30, Bob Basques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 All,
  
 We've been pondering some sort of alternative to the Mapfiles for a few years
 now.  A preferable approach would be something that could be stored in a DB in
 some fashion for querying/assembly processes.  It seems on the surface like a
 DB schema could be developed to handle the MapFile storage aspects.
  
 A first step would be in how to best approach moving into an XML way of life
 for the MapFiles.  Would it make any sense in the beginning to just build a
 MapFile2XML convertor (I would imagine this would be needed before anyone
 would sign up for XML) and once something like this is a state close to
 production, the innards of MapServer would then be made to parse the XML
 directly?  
  
 Another approach might be to do something like MapFile2SQL first, and then the
 MapFile2XML.  This might save some time and seem like it would make
 standardization easier, since it would need to be inside of the DB fist.
  
 Has anyone tried putting together any requirements list along these lines at
 all?  Is it going to be something where we just need to jump in and build
 something even if it might be a wrong approach to begin with?
  
 This thread just got me thinking is all . . .you know how dangerous that can
 be . . . :c)
  
 bobb
  
 
 
 Tamas Szekeres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi,
 
 MapServer currently doesn`t support any other persitence
 representation than the mapfiles. There have been some initial plans
 related to an XML format in this list, but no one had any motivation
 to implement that.
 So I think the best what you can do at the moment is to use reflection
 to access the properties along with some other members of the objects
 and serialize the values manually.
 
 Best regards,
 
 Tamas
 
 
 2008/6/9 BrainDrain [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 Is there any 'standart' fast(!) way/method to serialize (xml/json/other
 markup) mapObj in C#? I need it for using server mapObj as JSON on rich
 client app running on browser. Look at my method (using reflection):
 
 public static ListDictionary PartialSerialize(object instance, Stack
 callerTypes, Type[] excludeTypes)
{
ListDictionary result = new ListDictionary();
object val;
 
callerTypes.Push(instance.GetType());
PropertyInfo[] pis = instance.GetType().GetProperties();
foreach (PropertyInfo pi in pis)
{
if (pi.PropertyType.IsSerializable 
 !pi.PropertyType.IsArray)
result[pi.Name] = pi.GetValue(instance, new object[0]);
else
{
//preventing useless nesting
if (!callerTypes.Contains(pi.PropertyType) 
 !((IList)excludeTypes).Contains(pi.PropertyType))
{
val = pi.GetValue(instance, new object[0]);
if (val != null)
result[pi.Name] = PartialSerialize(val,
 callerTypes, excludeTypes);
}
}
}
callerTypes.Pop();
return result;
}
 ...
 So I can convert mapObj on serever to hashtable automatically an then
 populate JSON object
 (still need to call explicitly getLayer, getClass etc., but this is not a
 problem):
 ...
 layers[i].Properties = Tools.PartialSerialize(layer, new Stack(), new
 Type[3] { typeof(mapObj), typeof(hashTableObj), typeof(colorObj)});
 ...
 classes[j].Properties = Tools.PartialSerialize(layerClass, new Stack(), new
 Type[4] { typeof(layerObj), typeof(labelObj), typeof(hashTableObj),
 typeof(colorObj)});
 ...
 styles[k].Properties = Tools.PartialSerialize(classStyle, new Stack(), new
 Type[2]{typeof(hashTableObj), typeof(colorObj)});
 ...
 mapStub.Properties = Tools.PartialSerialize(map, new Stack(), new Type[11] {
 typeof(labelObj), typeof(hashTableObj), typeof(fontSetObj),
 

Re: [mapserver-users] mapserver wms: srs problem

2008-06-10 Thread Barend Kobben
Hi,

It looks like your mixing up several things that shouldn't be mixed:

1) 
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\ol\wms.mapSE
RVICE=WMSVERSION=1.1.1REQUEST=GetCapabilities
...is a valid WMS GetCapabilities request. It might result in a valid WMS
response (although I cannot test this as I obviously  do not have the same
localhost as you...)

However:  
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\ol\wms.mapmo
de=map
...is a non-WMS request, it uses the 'old' MapServer CGI mode, not the OGC
standardised WMS interface. To get a map the WMS way you'd request
something like:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\ol\wms.mapm;
SERVICE=WMSVERSION=1.1.1REQUEST=GetMapSTYLES=LAYERS=aLayerBBOX=1,2,3,4
SRS=EPSG:4326format=image/gif

2) next, you advertise your data to be in lat-lon on the WGS 84 (PROJECTION
init=epsg:4326), but you proclaim the EXTENT of the data to be in meters or
some other projected unit:
EXTENT  184056.505 4809728.25 767381.245 5478975.75
This obviously are not lat-lon degrees (which have a max extent of
-180,180,-90,90)... Now MS will be really confused! H, this client
wants lat-lon data that stretches over the whole of the universe... :-)

3) you then advertise the WMS to be able to deliver data in a non-projected
and a projected SRS:
 wms_srs EPSG:4326 EPSG:26915
Which is fine, but you do it again for the LAYER, which I think is
superfluous.

4) You do NOT tell the WMS what SRS the data originally is in. There is no
PROJECTION object in the LAYER, which in some case might lead to MapServer
trying to find out for itself, BUT NOT in the Postgis case you have. A
connection to PostGIS in itself needs to be told which projection to fetch
the data in (because PosGIS can reproject if necessary). One of the ways of
doing that is to make the DATA statement a bit more elaborate than
  the_geom from shp_state, instead use
 DATA   the_geom from shp_state using unique your_primary_key using
srid=26915

Hope this helps...

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Re: [mapserver-users] insert png image in svg output

2008-06-03 Thread Barend Kobben
 so there is no way to have in output an svg file with all the layer ? because
 if I understood Mapserver don't support svg file in input and according to the
 svg spec a png file is only linked by a svg file.

You can put a PNG inline inside SVG, but I do not see how that would help
you. I think the problem is that you use a Template, where the SVG gets
inserted into the HTML as an IMG object. Although I think it works sometimes
in some User Agents, that is not the correct way. Remember that an SVG
'picture' is a piece of XML to be interpreted, not a ratser image you can
just render directly to screen. So, if used inside (X)HTML it should be
embedded properly, eg. like:

object data=sample.svgz type=image/svg+xml
width=400 height=300
embed src=sample.svgz type=image/svg+xml
width=400 height=300 /
/object

See http://wiki.svg.org/SVG_and_HTML for more possibilities and explanation.


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Re: [mapserver-users] Using SLD and WMS with data comming from postgres

2008-05-30 Thread Barend Kobben
Did you check the SLD TMP file problem (from the thread Re: SLD ignored /
External Graphic ignored) see excerpt below)?

***snip***
Using SLDs is dependent on the correct setting of the two settings
 IMAGEPATH  -- where the mapserver software puts the SLD and other temporary
files 
 IMAGEURL -- where the web browser and other http services pick them up.

Setting these incorrectly, and more importantly their security setting
incorrrectly, will normally give no problems, but when using SLDs (and also
in other cases, eg. when chaining Mapserver to external WMS and WFS
services), they will make MS malfunction, but SILENTLY (ie. No error
messages).

Eg. in our set ups of a WMS with external SLD they are set as follows:

For  a *nix setup ( MacOSX) with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  Apache:
WEB
IMAGEPATH /Users/kobben/Sites/ms_tmp/
IMAGEURL http://localhost/~kobben/ms_tmp/;
##
METADATA
   [all your web metadata...]
END #metadata
END #web

For a Win box with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  IIS:
  IMAGEPATH C:/tmp/ms_tmp/
  IMAGEURL http://geoserver.itc.nl/ms_tmp/;

The IMAGEPATh is a directory that is reacheable by Mapserver at this real
location (in this case expressed as Unix BSD path on my MacOSX or as  UNC
path on Win) and that has read  write access set  for the Mapserver
process. Eg. on the Winbox it should have write access for the anonymous
system service account under which Mapserver runs (usually something like
SERVERNAME\IWAM_SERVERNAME).

You can test this by seeing if files with names like) are being created when
you request the WMS with external SLD. If they are the IMAGEPATH celarly
works. Then test if you can point a browser to the IMAGEURL and pick up the
tmp file. If that worsk the IMAGEURL is also OK. Now it should work...

Hope this helps.

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Re: [MAPSERVER-USERS] SLD ignored / External Graphic ignored

2008-04-09 Thread Barend Kobben
Hi,

I never tried the external SVG graphics, but the SLD problem sounds very
familiar. Almost always I find this kind of problem having not much to do
with the SLDs themselves, but with TMP file settings. This is certainly more
likely if you say sending the SLD it in SLD-BODY works.

Using SLDs is dependent on the correct setting of the two settings
 IMAGEPATH  -- where the mapserver software puts the SLD and other temporary
files 
 IMAGEURL -- where the web browser and other http services pick them up.

Setting these incorrectly, and more importantly their security setting
incorrrectly, will normally give no problems, but when using SLDs (and also
in other cases, eg. when chaining Mapserver to external WMS and WFS
services), they will make MS malfunction, but SILENTLY (ie. No error
messages).

Eg. in our set ups of a WMS with external SLD they are set as follows:

For  a *nix setup ( MacOSX) with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  Apache:
WEB
IMAGEPATH /Users/kobben/Sites/ms_tmp/
IMAGEURL http://localhost/~kobben/ms_tmp/;
##
METADATA
   [all your web metadata...]
END #metadata
END #web

For a Win box with Mapserver CGI 'behind'  IIS:
  IMAGEPATH C:/tmp/ms_tmp/
  IMAGEURL http://geoserver.itc.nl/ms_tmp/;

The IMAGEPATh is a directory that is reacheable by Mapserver at this real
location (in this case expressed as Unix BSD path on my MacOSX or as  UNC
path on Win) and that has read  write access set  for the Mapserver
process. Eg. on the Winbox it should have write access for the anonymous
system service account under which Mapserver runs (usually something like
SERVERNAME\IWAM_SERVERNAME).

You can test this by seeing if files with names like) are being created when
you request the WMS with external SLD. If they are the IMAGEPATH celarly
works. Then test if you can point a browser to the IMAGEURL and pick up the
tmp file. If that worsk the IMAGEURL is also OK. Now it should work...

Hope this helps.




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