MapServer 8.0 CONFIG

[kalxas]

MapServer 8.0 debian package is now available in our nightly ppa:

​https://launchpad.net/%7Eosgeolive/+archive/ubuntu/nightly/+sourcepub/14396759/+listing-archive-extra

MapServer 8.0 requires to setup a CONFIG file:

​https://mapserver.org/mapfile/config.html

The following error can be replicated in build22:

msLoadConfig(): Unable to access file.

[kalxas]

Pull request:

​https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/358

[kalxas]

Copying Seth's comments from the pull request.

This pull requests includes the following:

• points to the new updated demo (see ​https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-demo/pull/7 - a new v1.2 tag was created for this)
• adds a new CONFIG file required for MapServer 8.0. Move the current environment variables from Apache to the CONFIG file
• adds a new ITASCA setting to the CONFIG file (so it can be used for the OGC Features API - can add some notes to the quickstart on this)
• adds in the new php-mapscript-ng module

Note these changes haven't been tested with a full build of the OSGeoLive ISO, so there may need to be tweaks after a new beta build.

TODO:

• the Itasca demo is currently broken until the TEMPLATE value can be set via a URL. See ​https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6469#issuecomment-1375928613. Once this is merged and backported hopefully there can be a new MapServer 8.0 patch release used for OSGeoLive?
• confirm if the PROJ_LIB" "/usr/share/proj" setting in the CONFIG is required - or is this the default location anyway?
• update MS_DOCS_VERSION="7-6" to MS_DOCS_VERSION="8-0" when this file is available. It needs to be uploaded to ​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/mapserver/mapserver-8-0-html-docs.zip (see directory contents at ​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/mapserver/)
• it would be nice to include the html-bootstrap4 templates - currently only html-plain are added in the UbuntuGIS package

[kalxas]

MapServer demo works again on build27

​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/nightly/osgeolive-nightly-build27-amd64-3c5c53d-master.iso

Leaving ticket open to track todo items

[sethg]

I've uploaded the latest docs to ​https://www.dropbox.com/s/oo9sulhheac7ejw/mapserver-8-0-html-docs.zip?dl=0 using the same naming convention / structure as previously.

@kalxas do you have permissions to upload this file to ​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/mapserver/ ?

[darkblueb]

try

​https://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/16/mapserv/mapserver-8-0-html-docs.zip

[kalxas]

Thank you, it is now available:

​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/mapserver/mapserver-8-0-html-docs.zip

[kalxas]

More updates regarding MapServer 8.0 configuration:

​https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/pull/359

[kalxas]

TODO list update:

• the Itasca demo is currently broken until the TEMPLATE value can be set via a URL. See ​​https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6469#issuecomment-1375928613. Once this is merged and backported hopefully there can be a new MapServer 8.0 patch release used for OSGeoLive?
• DONE - confirm if the PROJ_LIB" "/usr/share/proj" setting in the CONFIG is required - or is this the default location anyway?
• DONE - update MS_DOCS_VERSION="7-6" to MS_DOCS_VERSION="8-0" when this file is available. It needs to be uploaded to ​​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/mapserver/mapserver-8-0-html-docs.zip (see directory contents at ​​http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/data/mapserver/)
• it would be nice to include the html-bootstrap4 templates - currently only html-plain are added in the UbuntuGIS package

For the last item, there was an IRC discussion on DebianGIS IRC, this will not happen upstream due to JavaScript licensing issues.

[sethg]

Thanks for the update @kalxas, I thought there might be a reason why it wasn't included. Do you have a link to the discussion? It would be good to know which JS library was an issue so that if a different template is used it can be avoided. For now the plain templates will suffice. Once the 8.0 patch release is out the final issues should be resolved.