Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of LightSpeedMapServer

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Jul 29, 2010, 12:27:41 AM (14 years ago)

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hellonishad

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+== Light Speed Map Server ==
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+This is a configuration of Map Server WMS as fast-cgi module of Lighttpd. Here I am compiling all main software packages from the source code on a 64bit Linux operating[[BR]]
+system to get maximum performance. I hope my readers having experience in installing & configuring software packages under Linux platform. I prefer a CentOS 5.4 ×86_64 Linux [[BR]]
+minimal server installation, because it is quite stable for me so far.
+[[BR]]
+''Prerequisites''
+[[BR]]
+Make sure that you have installed the following packages, normally it comes with the operating system installation.
+{{{
+cc gcc-c++ python python-devel krb5-devel readline-devel make swig pcre-devel libpng libpng-devel
+bzip2-devel fontconfig fontconfig-devel libxml2-devel penssl-devel 
+curl-devel giflib-devel zlib-devel gettext libjpeg-devel libtiff-devel
+}}}
+If any of the package is not installed, install it by using YUM. For example if gcc is missing
+{{{
+yum install gcc-c++
+}}}
+Ok, let’s start with the main software packages installation for Map Server,[[BR]]
+'''PostgresSQL'''[[BR]]
+The world’s most advanced open source database server.I prefer PostgresSQL server to store the vector map data, for fast searching and rendering of WMS map tiles.
+[[BR]]Download the source[http://www.postgresql.org/][[BR]]
+Installation & Configuration.[[BR]]
+{{{
+tar -xzf postgresql-8.4.2.tar.gz
+cd postgresql-8.4.2/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/pgsql —with-perl —with-python —with-krb5
+make
+make install
+adduser postgres
+mkdir /var/lib/pgsql
+chown -R postgres /var/lib/pgsql
+su postgres
+/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
+/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -i -h localhost -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data &
+}}}
+Now your PostgreSQL server is up and running. If you need an init.d startup script, download it from here [http://nishad.us/docs/softwares/postgresql.txt][[BR]]
+'''FastCGI'''[[BR]]
+FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. This is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface (CGI). Unlike CGI, It cannot [[BR]]
+duplicates the universality of CGI overnight. It runs applications in processes isolated from the core Web server, which provides greater security than APIs. Not only does 
+FastCGI restore the strengths of CGI, it also adds two new benefits like Distributed computing and Multiple extensible roles.[[BR]]
+Download the source[http://www.fastcgi.com/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
+cd fcgi-2.4.0/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/
+make
+make install
+}}}
+You have installed the FastCGI executables and libraries now, we will use this later while configuring the Map Server.
+'''Proj.4'''
+It is Cartographic Projections library is designed as a standard Unix filter utility to be employed with other pro-grams in the generation of maps and charts and, in many [[BR]]cases, used in map digitizing applications for conversion of State Plane Coordinate Systems to and from geographic coordinates.
+Download the source[http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf proj-4.7.0.tar.gz
+cd proj-4.7.0/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/
+make
+make install
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled the Proj4 libraries required for Map Server.
+'''LighHTTPD'''
+Lighttpd is a web server designed and optimized for high performance environments, with a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers and effective management of the[[BR]] cpu-load. This is a perfect solution for every server which is suffering load problems.
+Download the source[http://www.lighttpd.net/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf lighttpd-1.4.26.tar.gz
+cd lighttpd-1.4.26/
+p<>. ./configure —prefix /usr/local/ —bindir=/usr/local/bin/ —sbindir=/usr/local/sbin/ —libexecdir=/usr/local/libexec/ —libdir=/usr/local/lib/ —includedir=/usr/local/include —sysconfdir=/usr/local/lighthttpd —datarootdir=/var/www/ —datadir=/var/www —with-memcache
+make
+make install
+install -Dp ./doc/lighttpd.conf /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+sed -e ‘s/FOO/lighttpd/g’ doc/rc.lighttpd.redhat > /etc/init.d/lighttpd
+chmod a+rx /etc/init.d/lighttpd
+/etc/init.d/lighttpd start
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled and configured your fast & secure Lighttpd web server.
+'''FreeType'''
+FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output. It can be used [[BR]]in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.
+Download the source[http://www.freetype.org/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf freetype-2.3.12.tar.gz
+cd freetype-2.3.12/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/
+make
+make install
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled the FreeType libraries required for Map Server.
+'''GEOS'''
+Geos GEOS is a Geometry Engine which aims to contain the complete functionality of Java Topology Suite. This includes all the GIS Simple Features for SQL spatial predicate [[BR]]functions and spatial operators, as well as specific JTS enhanced topology functions.
+Download the source [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xjf geos-3.2.0.tar.bz2
+cd geos-3.2.0/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/ —enable-python —enable-swig
+make
+make install
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled the Geos libraries required for Map Server.
+'''GD'''
+GD is used for dynamic creation of images like PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most anything[[BR]] else, on the fly.
+Download the source [http://www.libgd.org/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf gd-2.0.35.tar.gz
+cd gd-2.0.35/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/ —with-png=/usr/ —with-jpeg=/usr/local/ —with-fontconfig=/usr/
+make
+make install
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled the GD binaries and it’s libraries required for Map Server.
+'''PHP'''
+PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Here we are configuring PHP with [[BR]]
+PostgreSql and GD with is required for PHP mapscript, and compiling as fast-cgi to get the maximum security and speed.
+Download the source [http://php.net/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf php-5.3.2.tar.gz
+cd php-5.3.2/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/php5 —with-fastcgi=/usr/local —with-regex=php —enable-debug —enable-magic-quotes —enable-libgcc —with-libxml-dir=/usr/local/ —with-openssl=/usr[[BR]] —with-kerberos=/usr/local/ —with-zlib=/usr —with-bz2=/usr/local/ —with-curl=/usr/local/ —with-gettext=/usr/local/ —enable-mbstring —with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/ —enable-soap —enable-zip —with-gd=/usr/local/ —with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/ —with-png-dir=/usr/local/ —with-mhash=/usr/local/
+make
+make install
+cp -pr php.ini-production /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled PHP as fast-cgi in the server.
+'''PostGIS'''
+PostGIS PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS “spatially enables” the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to[[BR]] be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS).
+Download the source[ http://postgis.refractions.net/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf softwares/postgis-1.5.1.tar.gz
+cd postgis-1.5.1/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/ —with-geosconfig=/usr/local/bin/geos-config —with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
+make
+make install
+}}}
+You have successfully configured postGIS with PostgreSQL and Geos, compiled the source and installed the binaries. Now you create a PostgreSQL database and spatially enables [[BR]]it by importing the PostGIS sql functions.
+{{{
+createdb -U postgres testgis
+createlang -U postgres plpgsql testgis
+psql -U postgres testgis < postgis/postgis.sql
+psql -U postgres testgis < spatial_ref_sys.sql
+}}}
+'''GDAL'''
+GDAL (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) is a library for reading and writing raster geospatial data formats. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the[[BR]] calling application for all supported formats. It may also be built with a variety of useful command-line utilities for data translation and processing.
+Download the source http://www.gdal.org/
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf gdal-1.7.1.tar.gz
+cd gdal-1.7.1/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/ —with-png=/usr/ —with-libtiff=/usr/local/ —with-jpeg=/usr/local/ —with-gif=/usr/ —with-pg=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config —with-geos=/usr/local/ —with-python
+make
+make install
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled Gdal with png,tiff,jpeg,gif,PostgreSQL and python. Now your Gdal library is available to build the Map Server.
+Map Server
+'''Map Server''' 
+MapServer is geographic data rendering engine, providing spatial context where needed. It allows you to create geographic image maps that can direct users to content. It was[[BR]] originally developed by the University of Minnesota (UMN) ForNet project in cooperation with NASA. The main features are,
+    * Advanced cartographic output
+    * Scale dependent feature drawing and application execution
+    * Feature labeling including label collision mediation
+    * Fully customizable, template driven output
+    * TrueType fonts
+    * Map element automation (scalebar, reference map, and legend)
+    * Thematic mapping using logical- or regular expression-based classes
+    * Support for popular scripting and development environments, ie PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java.
+    * Cross-platform support
+    * Support of numerous Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, ie WMS,WFS, WMC, WCS, Filter Encoding, SLD, GML, SOS, OM
+    * A multitude of raster and vector data formats, ie TIFF/GeoTIFF, EPPL7, ESRI shapfiles, PostGIS, ESRI ArcSDE, Oracle Spatial, MySQL
+    * On-the-fly map projection with 1000s of projections through the Proj.4 library.
+Download the source [http://mapserver.org/]
+Installation & Configuration
+{{{
+tar -xzf mapserver-5.6.1.tar.gz
+cd mapserver-5.6.1/
+./configure —prefix=/usr/local/ —with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config —with-ogr=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config —with-httpd=/usr/local/sbin/lighttpd —with-curl=/usr/bin/curl-config[[BR]] —enable-debug —with-proj=/usr/local/ —with-tiff=/usr/ —with-gd=/usr/local/ —with-jpeg=/usr/local/ —with-freetype=/usr/local/ —with-threads [[BR]]—with-postgis=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config —with-xml2-config=/usr/bin/xml2-config —with-png=/usr/ —with-wmsclient —with-wmsserver —with-fastcgi=/usr/local/ —with-wfs [[BR]]with-wfsclient —with-gif=/usr/ —with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config —with-php=/usr/local/php5
+make
+make install
+cp -pr mapserv /var/www/cgi-bin/
+}}}
+You have successfully compiled the Map Server with all it’s prerequisites and bindings,and as fast-cgi binary. Now you can test your installation by running “mapserv” binary.[[BR]] If you get below output, it seems your installation is successful.
+{{{
+./mapserv -v
+MapServer version 5.6.1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER [[BR]]SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
+}}}
+PHP & Map server FastCGI configuration with Lighttpd. Edit Lighttpd.conf,
+{{{
+vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+}}}
+and insert below configuration under the fastcgi section.
+{{{
+fastcgi.server = ( “.php” =>
+( “localhost” =>
+(
+“socket” => “/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket”,
+“bin-path” => “/usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi”
+)
+),
+“/map” =>
+( “localhost” =>
+(
+“socket” => “/tmp/mapserver-fastcgi.socket”,
+“bin-path” => “/var/www/cgi-bin/mapserv”,
+“max-procs” => 1,
+“check-local” => “disable”
+)
+)
+)
+}}}
+Restart your Lighttpd server.
+{{{
+/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
+}}}
+Your Light Speed FastCGI Map Server Web Map Service(WMS) is up and running now. :) Try it from the URL http://localhost/maps?map=yourmapfile.map
+Contact me for any further help.
+
+Nishad Aliyar
+nishad.n.a@gmail.com