!RedHat9 and !MapServer4.0

The following are build notes for installing MapServer 4.0 on a new installation of RedHat 9. This is a slightly modified version of the RedHat9AndMapserver40b from Erich Schroeder, with the following changes:

• Added Xerces for WFS client support
• Update to latest package versions
• Use 'sudo' instead of running everything as root
• Install PHP in /usr/local/php433 to allow multiple PHP installations to coexist
• Install MapServer binaries as mapserv_40 and php_mapscript_40.so to allow multiple versions to coexist on the same box

The first steps of those instructions assume that you installed the port of "apt" for rpm-based distributions, available at ​http://freshrpms.net/apt/. You can download apt from ​http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=650.

Daniel M, 2003-10-09

Build Notes

# removed these and dependent rpms
sudo apt-get remove gd
sudo apt-get remove curl
sudo apt-get remove curl-devel
sudo apt-get remove php

# already have following rpms installed
sudo apt-get install freetype freetype-devel
sudo apt-get install libpng libpng-devel
sudo apt-get install libtiff libtiff-devel zlib zlib-devel
sudo apt-get install libjpeg libjpeg-devel
#
# I'm assuming that you will be providing a non-commercial mapserver
# application, and then can use the PDFlib-Lite under their 
# Alladin-type license. If not, you will need to either 
# purchase the full PDFlib library or disable
wget http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib/download/PDFlib-Lite-5.0.2-Unix-src.tar.gz
tar xzf PDFlib-Lite-5.0.2-Unix-src.tar.gz
cd PDFlib-Lite-5.0.2-Unix-src
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# download and build ming
wget http://www.opaque.net/ming/ming-0.2a.tgz
tar xzf ming-0.2a.tgz
cd ming-0.2a
make clean
make
make static
sudo make install

cd ..

# download and build curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.10.7.tar.gz
tar xzf curl-7.10.7.tar.gz
cd curl-7.10.7
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install

cd ..

# add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf ...
# and run ldconfig
sudo /sbin/ldconfig

# download and install gd-2 into /usr/local
rm -f /usr/lib/libgd.*     # to remove any potentially conflicts
wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.15.tar.gz
tar xzf gd-2.0.15.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.15
make clean
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# download and build proj libraries
wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/proj/proj-4.4.7.tar.gz
wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/proj/proj-nad27-1.1.tar.gz
tar xzf proj-4.4.7.tar.gz
cd proj-4.4.7/nad
tar xzf ../../proj-nad27-1.1.tar.gz
cd ..
./configure
make
sudo make install

cd ..

# if you are going to use WMS/WFS then you might want to download and install
# a new epsg file with custom canadian projections and esri projections codes
wget http://www.maptools.org/dl/proj4-epsg-with-42xxx-and-esri.zip
unzip proj4-epsg-with-42xxx-and-esri.zip
sudo mv epsg /usr/local/share/proj/

#download and install Xerces 1.6 (for GML support in OGR)
wget http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-c/stable/archives/Xerces-C_1_6_0/xerces-c-src1_6_0.tar.gz
tar xzf xerces-c-src1_6_0.tar.gz
cd xerces-c-src1_6_0
#set SERCESROOT to the xerces source directory
export XERCESCROOT=`pwd`
cd src
# The configure file in the distribution is not executable!
chmod +x ./configure
./configure
make
sudo make install

sudo /sbin/ldconfig

cd ../..


# download and install gdal-1.1.9
wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/gdal-1.1.9.tar.gz
tar xzf gdal-1.1.9.tar.gz
cd gdal-1.1.9
make clean
./configure  --with-ogr --without-python --with-xerces
make
sudo make install
cd ..

sudo /sbin/ldconfig

# download and build php
#
# Note that I install PHP under /usr/local/php433 in order to allow
# multiple versions of PHP to coexist on my server
#
wget http://ca.php.net/get/php-4.3.3.tar.gz/from/ca2.php.net/mirror
tar xzf php-4.3.3.tar.gz
cd php-4.3.3
make clean
./configure --enable-shared --with-regex=system --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --with-png-dir=/usr --with-zlib --with-gd=/usr/local --with-freetype-dir=/usr --enable-force-cgi-redirect --enable-dbase --with-pdflib --with-mysql --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php433/ --prefix=/usr/local/php433 
make
sudo cp sapi/cgi/php /var/www/cgi-bin/php433
sudo make install
sudo cp php.ini-dist /usr/local/php433/php.ini

# note: include brackets in the following command to keep your shell in current directory
(cd /usr/local/php433; sudo ln -s lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/ extensions)

# edit your php.ini:
#diff /usr/local/php433/php.ini php.ini-dist
#428c428
#< extension_dir = "/usr/local/php433/extensions/"
#---
#> extension_dir = "./"

cd ..


# download and build mapserver
wget http://cvs.gis.umn.edu/dist/mapserver-4.0.tar.gz
tar xzf mapserver-4.0.tar.gz
cd mapServer-4.0
rm -f config.cache
./configure --without-tiff --without-eppl --with-threads --with-proj --with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config --with-ogr --with-php=../php-4.3.3 --with-gd=/usr/local  --with-freetype=/usr/bin  --with-pdf --with-ming --with-wmsclient --with-wfs --with-wfsclient

make clean
make
# DO NOT do a "make install"

sudo cp mapserv /var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv_40
sudo cp mapscript/php3/php_mapscript.so /usr/local/php433/extensions/php_mapscript_40.so

cd ..

# add to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

#
# For PHP scripts as CGI-BIN
#
#AddType application/x-httpd-php-cgi .php .php4 .phtml
#Action  application/x-httpd-php-cgi /cgi-bin/php433

sudo /sbin/service httpd restart

# create /var/www/html/ms_info.php
#<?php
#dl("php_mapscript_40.so");
#phpinfo();
#?>

# check the output of http://yourhost/ms_info.php
# for mapserver support