MapServer Version Information

MapServer version 5.0.2 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG
OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDFOUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ
SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER
SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT
SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI
SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS
INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

MapServer Build Environment

Compiled using Howard Butler's MapServer buildkit

Library Versions Used to build this version of MapServer:

curl-7.15.1
expat-2.0.1
fcgi-2.4.0
fits-3.0.2
freetype-2.1.10
gd-2.0.35
gdal-1.5.0
geos-2.2.3
gettext-0.13
hdf5
jbigkit-1.6
jpeg-6b
libecwj2-3.3
libgeotiff-1.2.3
libiconv-1.9.1
libintl-0.11.5
libpng-1.2.8
libxml2-2.6.23.win32
mapserver-5.0.2
ming-0.2a
mrsid-6.0.7.1407
mysql-5.0.18-win32
netcdf-3.6.1
PDFlib-Lite-6.0.2
php-5.2.5 (MS4W 2.x)
php-4.4.4 (MS4W 1.x)
postgresql-8.2.3
proj-4.4.9
Python-2.5.1
regex-0.12
sqlite3
SWIG-1.3.33
tiff-cvs (02/04/08)
xerces-c-2.7.0
zlib-1.2.3

MapScript

• C# MapScript: compiled against .NET 1.1 runtime
• Java MapScript: compiled against Java 1.6.0_01
• PHP MapScript: built for PHP 5 (MS4W 2.x), or PHP 4 (MS4W 1.x)
• Python MapScript: compiled against Python 2.5.1

Perl, TCL, and Ruby MapScript are not in this MS4W release

OGR Formats Supported

See the OGR formats page for full driver descriptions.

"ESRI Shapefile" (read/write)
"MapInfo File" (read/write)
"UK .NTF" (readonly)
"SDTS" (readonly)
"TIGER" (read/write)
"S57" (read/write)
"DGN" (read/write)
"VRT" (readonly)
"REC" (readonly)
"Memory" (read/write)
"BNA" (read/write)
"CSV" (read/write)
"GML" (read/write)
"GPX" (read/write)
"KML" (read/write)
"GeoJSON" (read/write)
"GMT" (read/write)
"SQLite" (read/write)
"ODBC" (read/write)
"PGeo" (readonly)
"PostgreSQL" (read/write)
"MySQL" (read/write)
"AVCBin" (readonly)

Oracle - see `GDAL/OGR Plugins` section of this document to enable
SDE - see `GDAL/OGR Plugins` section of this document to enable

GDAL Formats Supported

See the GDAL formats page for full driver descriptions.

VRT (rw+): Virtual Raster
GTiff (rw+): GeoTIFF
NITF (rw+): National Imagery Transmission Format
RPFTOC (ro): Raster Product Format TOC format
HFA (rw+): Erdas Imagine Images (.img)
SAR_CEOS (ro): CEOS SAR Image
CEOS (ro): CEOS Image
JAXAPALSAR (ro): JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5)
GFF (ro): Ground-based SAR Applications Testbed File Format (.gff)
ELAS (rw+): ELAS
AIG (ro): Arc/Info Binary Grid
AAIGrid (rw): Arc/Info ASCII Grid
SDTS (ro): SDTS Raster
DTED (rw): DTED Elevation Raster
PNG (rw): Portable Network Graphics
JPEG (rw): JPEG JFIF
MEM (rw+): In Memory Raster
JDEM (ro): Japanese DEM (.mem)
GIF (rw): Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
ESAT (ro): Envisat Image Format
FITS (rw+): Flexible Image Transport System
BSB (ro): Maptech BSB Nautical Charts
XPM (rw): X11 PixMap Format
BMP (rw+): MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap
DIMAP (ro): SPOT DIMAP
AirSAR (ro): AirSAR Polarimetric Image
RS2 (ro): RadarSat 2 XML Product
PCIDSK (rw+): PCIDSK Database File
PCRaster (rw): PCRaster Raster File
ILWIS (rw+): ILWIS Raster Map
SGI (ro): SGI Image File Format 1.0
SRTMHGT (rw): SRTMHGT File Format
Leveller (rw+): Leveller heightfield
Terragen (rw+): Terragen heightfield
GMT (rw): GMT NetCDF Grid Format
netCDF (rw): Network Common Data Format
PNM (rw+): Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm)
DOQ1 (ro): USGS DOQ (Old Style)
DOQ2 (ro): USGS DOQ (New Style)
ENVI (rw+): ENVI .hdr Labelled
EHdr (rw+): ESRI .hdr Labelled
GenBin (ro): Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled)
PAux (rw+): PCI .aux Labelled
MFF (rw+): Vexcel MFF Raster
MFF2 (rw+): Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster
FujiBAS (ro): Fuji BAS Scanner Image
GSC (ro): GSC Geogrid
FAST (ro): EOSAT FAST Format
BT (rw+): VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format
LAN (ro): Erdas .LAN/.GIS
CPG (ro): Convair PolGASP
IDA (rw+): Image Data and Analysis
NDF (ro): NLAPS Data Format
DIPEx (ro): DIPEx
ISIS3 (ro): USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3)
ISIS2 (ro): USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2)
PDS (ro): NASA Planetary Data System
ERS (rw+): ERMapper .ers Labelled
ECW (rw): ERMapper Compressed Wavelets
JP2ECW (rw+): ERMapper JPEG2000
L1B (ro): NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set
FIT (rw): FIT Image
MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)
JP2MrSID (ro): MrSID JPEG2000
RMF (rw+): Raster Matrix Format
WCS (ro): OGC Web Coverage Service
WMS (ro): OGC Web Map Service
MSGN (ro): EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat)
RST (rw+): Idrisi Raster A.1
INGR (rw+): Intergraph Raster
GSAG (rw+): Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd)
GSBG (rw+): Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd)
GS7BG (ro): Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd)
COSAR (ro): COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X)
TSX (ro): TerraSAR-X Product
COASP (ro): DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
RIK (ro): Swedish Grid RIK (.rik)
USGSDEM (rw): USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED)
GXF (ro): GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format
HTTP (ro): HTTP Fetching Wrapper
HDF5 (ro): Hierarchical Data Format Release 5
HDF5Image (ro): HDF5 Dataset
ADRG (rw+): ARC Digitized Raster Graphics

SDE raster - see `GDAL/OGR Plugins` section of this
             document to enable

Directory Structure

• ms4w/

  • the main directory, assumed to be at the root of a drive, normally C:

• ms4w/Apache

  • the Apache installation

• ms4w/Apache/bin

  • the Apache binaries

• ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin

  • the location of mapserv.exe and its supporting libraries, and php.ini, php.exe.

• ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin/ignored-libmap

  • location of the libmap dll for Oracle (see the "Plugins" section of this document)

• ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin/mapscript

  • location of CSharp, Java, and Python mapscript files

• ms4w/Apache/conf

  • the Apache configuration files. These should not be modified. Place all application-specific and local httpd.conf files in /ms4w/httpd.d (see the README.txt in that directory)

• ms4w/Apache/error

  • error files for Apache to use

• ms4w/Apache/htdocs

  • the Apache Web root directory, you shouldn't install much in here except perhaps for testing.

• ms4w/Apache/icons

  • icons used by Apache

• ms4w/Apache/include

  • include directory for compiling against Apache

• ms4w/Apache/lib

  • lib files for building against Apache

• ms4w/Apache/logs

  • log files for Apache are stored here, this should be archived or cleaned every so often.

• ms4w/Apache/manual

  • the Apache manual pages.

• ms4w/Apache/modules

  • modules for Apache

• ms4w/Apache/php

  • the PHP installation

• ms4w/Apache/php/ext (MS4W 2.x)

  • location of phpmapscript dll

• ms4w/Apache/php/extensions (MS4W 1.x)

  • location of phpmapscript dll

• ms4w/Apache/proxy

  • apache proxy configurations, not used by MS4W

• ms4w/Apache/specialplugins

  • location of the plugin dlls for SDE (see the "Plugins" section of this document)

• ms4w/apps

  • put all applications in subdirectories here.

• ms4w/gdaldata

  • supporting files for GDAL data formats

• ms4w/gdalplugins

  • place dlls here that are required for gdal plugins e.g. 'oci_OCI.dll'

• ms4w/httpd.d

  • put all application-specific and local httpd.conf files here (see the README.txt in that directory)

• ms4w/proj

  • an installation of PROJ.4
  • the epsg file used is /ms4w/proj/nad/epsg

• ms4w/python

  • associated python files, including gdal bindings and a simple test script

• ms4w/tmp

  • temporary files go here. This should be cleaned regularly

• ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp

  • temporary files that need to be Web-accessible go here (i.e. image files created by mapserver). This is available as /ms_tmp/ via URL. Normally this means that your MAP files would have an IMAGEPATH of /ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/ and a IMAGEURL of /ms_tmp/

• ms4w/tools

  • contains useful tools such as the gdal/ogr utilities and mapserv utilities (note that before running these you must execute the /ms4w/setenv.bat script in your command window)

A. Upgrading from an older version of MS4W

If you already have MS4W installed please do the following:

• open a DOS command window and execute the file '/ms4w/apache-uninstall.bat' at the commandline. This file will stop and uninstall your Apache service. You should see the following message flash in the command window:

The "Apache MS4W Web Server" service is stopping.
The "Apache MS4W Web Server" service has stopped.

Removing the "Apache MS4W Web Server" service
The "Apache MS4W Web Server" service has been removed
successfully.

• your old apache service has now been removed
• make sure no files or other services point the your ms4w folder. If your browser is currently open and you are a viewing an ms4w page you will not be able to rename the ms4w folder. Therefore you must close all ms4w documents, all ms4w browser windows...make sure no running files point to the ms4w folder.
• rename the old ms4w folder to something like 'ms4w-old'
• extract the ms4w_xx.zip file to the root of a drive on your machine
• if successful, you should have a new directory named 'ms4w' at the root of the drive you chose (e.g. C:/ms4w or D:/ms4w ).
• follow the rest of the install instructions in /ms4w/README_INSTALL.txt to start apache...

B. Extracting MS4W for the first time

Please read through the following instructions before starting your installation.

1. To install the MS4W .zip file, use a compression program (e.g. WinZip) to extract the package at the root of a drive, e.g., drive C:. If successful, you should have a new directory named 'ms4w' at the root of the drive you chose (e.g. C:/ms4w).

2. Start your MS4W Apache Web Server by running /ms4w/apache-install.bat (at the command line or by double-clicking it). This file installs Apache as a Windows service (called "Apache Web Server") so that it starts whenever your machine is restarted. When executed, a DOS window should pop up with the following message:

   Installing the Apache MS4W Web Server service
   The Apache MS4W Web Server service is successfully installed.
   Testing httpd.conf....
   Errors reported here must be corrected before the service
   can be started.
   The Apache MS4W Web Server service is starting.
   The Apache MS4W Web Server service was started successfully.
   

   This means that Apache is running and installed as a service.

   NOTE for Win95,98,ME users:

   You will not be able to install Apache as a service, so instead you will have to manually start Apache each time, by clicking on /ms4w/Apache/bin/httpd.exe. An empty DOS window will open, which means Apache is running. To stop Apache you will have to close this empty DOS window.

3. To test that Apache is running properly, open your Web browser and find your local host Web service by entering one of the following URLs:

   http://localhost/
   
   or
   
   http://127.0.0.1/
   

   You should now see the main MS4W page in your Web browser. This gives you general information about your install along with configuration information. If this is your first time using MS4W it is very important that you review the listed "Features" installed within MS4W, and test them by selecting each link found on this page.

4. Technically, at this point, MS4W is installed! However, as you may have noticed from the MS4W main index.html page, there are no applications running. What this means is that there are no Web applications like MapLab or Chameleon found within MS4W's Web-accessible directory, /ms4w/apps/. The MS4W-configured Web applications can be found on http://maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=downloads.html as separate zip files.

5. To install these Web application into /ms4w/apps/ all that is required is to unzip the Web application compressed file at the same root directory as MS4W (e.g., C:).

   Two things should happen when uncompressing this file. First, the Web application directory should appear within /ms4w/apps/. Second, a new httpd_*.conf file should be added to /ms4w/httpd.d/httpd_*.conf. (The /httpd.d/ directory contains Apache configuration files that define which files on your computer/server are Web-accessible. For each Web application that you install, a new configuration file will be found.)

6. The definitions of these Web-accessible directories are called Web Aliases. In order to activate a Web Alias you must restart Apache. To test your latest installed application, go to the MS4W main index.html page (i.e., http://localhost/). In the applications section you should now find a link to the application you just installed. Select the link to the recently installed application to see if it is configured correctly. Another option is find the Web Alias for your application and call it from your Web browser directly. For example, if you have installed the latest MS4W version of MapLab, the chances are the Web Alias is "maplab". To go to the MapLab index page, simply enter http://localhost/maplab/.

   Note: Applications with configuration files (e.g., MapLab and Chameleon) generally do not require any editing of their files in order to work. Just unzip to the appropriate driver root and restart Apache.

   WARNING: It is very possible that you may wish (but not encouraged!) to run multiple versions of the same product. For example, Maplab 2.0 (mapserver_36) vs. MapLab 2.1 (mapserver_4.0). When installing these ms4w MapLab application packages, you will notice when unzipping MapLab that the httpd_maplab.conf file found under ./ms4w/httpd.d/ will be overwritten by the MapLab you are currently installing. The reason for this is that the MapLab Alias stays the same from version to new version of MapLab. So, if you overwrite the httpd_maplab.conf when unzipping and then restart Apache, you will get the latest version of Maplab that you just installed. To run both MapLab simply follow the instructions in Step 7.

7. You also can create new Web Alias(es). To configure your own personal Web Alias(es), follow the instructions in /ms4w/httpd.d/README_HTTPD.txt

C. Special Notes for Microsoft Vista

In order to run the apache-install.bat file, you must do the following:

1. In Windows Explorer, goto the location of your cmd.exe file (C:/Windows/System32)
2. Right-click the cmd.exe executable and choose Run as Administrator
3. Navigate to your ms4w folder in the command prompt window and run apache-install.bat

D. Plugins

E. MapScript configuration

MS4W >= 1.5.0 includes pre-built support files for csharp, java, and python mapscript. In order to make use of these, however, they must be installed and configured in the appropriate locations on your system.

#!c:/python25/python.exe -u

ScriptInterpreterSource Registry

SetEnv PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
PassEnv PYTHONPATH

F. FastCGI

MS4W >= 2.2.2 contains MapServer built with FastCGI support. It does not however contain the required Apache module mod_fcgi. See the FastCGI Howto for more information.

G. Troubleshooting

Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library '/ms4w/Apache/php/extensions/php_mapscript.dll'

1. Verify that the dll in question exists in the specified location (/ms4w/Apache/php/extensions/). If this dll is not in that location, you might have to modify the application to point to a different version of the dll (e.g. you might have php_mapscript.dll in the extensions directory, and your application might be configured for php_mapscript_48.dll which is not in the extensions directory).

2. This php_mapscript dll requires several other dlls, and the problem may be that one is missing on your system. In order to hopefully get more information on what dll is missing, go to a command prompt, and do the following:

   cd ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin
   
   php C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/phpinfo_mapscript.php
   

   A windows error window should open with a message like:

   The dynamic link library ***** could not be found in
   the specified path...
   

   Locate this missing dll and copy it either to /ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin/ or your system32 folder.

3. If you are still unsure what dll is causing this unable to load dynamic library error, a useful utility to find what associated dlls are missing on your system is Dependency Walker. Download the utility, execute the exe, and open your php_mapscript dll.

The dynamic link library MSVCP71.dll could not be found in the specified path...

This is a microsoft runtime library that is apparently not on all Windows systems by default. Download the dll (possibly from here) and copy it to your System32 directory.

Clicking on apache-install.bat flashes a DOS window and does not install the service

To see the exact error message, open a Command window, and execute the 'apache-install.bat' file from a DOS prompt.

cd ms4w

apache-install.bat

Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down

Apache with MS4W is configured to use port 80. Your system might be already using this port (IIS could cause this for example). If you want to change the port that Apache uses modify the following file:

/ms4w/Apache/conf/httpd.conf

line 120: Listen 80

TCPView is an example of shareware that lets you see how the ports on your machine are being used.

The procedure entry point xxxx could not be located in the dynamic link library xxx.dll

Make sure that MapServer (or the utility that you are trying to use) is actually using the 'xxx.dll' file that is part of the MS4W package. You could be experiencing 'dll hell' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_hell) where MS4W is actually finding an older dll on your system. Try renaming the other dll(s) of the same name, keeping the one in MS4W as is, and retrying your application/command.

Other Problems...

1. Search the mailing list archives to see if someone has encountered/solved your same issue.

2. If your issue has not been brought up on the mailing list and dealt with, submit a question to the MS4W mailing list. Include the steps to reproduce your problem, and state your exact error message. Also specify which version of MS4W you are using.

H. Modifying MS4W for an Installation not at the Drive Root

Do the following steps in a text editor:

1. Open /ms4w/Apache/conf/httpd.conf and search for "/ms4w/" and replace with your new path from your drive root (such as "/Temp/ms4w/")
2. Open /ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin/php.ini and search for "/ms4w/" and replace with your new path from your drive root (such as "/Temp/ms4w/")
3. Open all files in /ms4w/httpd.d and search for "/ms4w/" and replace with your new path from your drive root (such as "/Temp/ms4w/")
4. Open /ms4w/setenv.bat and search for "/ms4w/" and replace with your new path from your drive root (such as "/Temp/ms4w/")
5. Configure your add-on packages. Using Chameleon as an example: Open /ms4w/apps/chameleon/config/chameleon.xml and search for "/ms4w/" and replace with your new path from your drive root (such as "/Temp/ms4w/")

Recommendation: avoid installing MS4W in a path that contains spaces

I. Installing the MS4W MapServer Binaries in Other Environments

The following instructions will help non-MS4W users who want to only use the MapServer binaries included in MS4W:

1. Download and extract the MS4W base package locally from MapTools.

2. Do not install the Apache service (apache-install.bat)

3. Copy the following necessary files from the /ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/ directory into your desired cgi-bin directory:

   cfitsio.dll
   fdftk.dll
   fribidi.dll
   gdal15.dll
   gds32.dll
   geos_c.dll
   geotiff.dll
   hdf5dll.dll
   iconv.dll
   jbig1.dll
   libcurl.dll
   libeay32.dll
   libecwj2.dll
   libexpat.dll
   libfcgi.dll
   libmap.dll
   libmcrypt.dll
   libmhash.dll
   libmysql.dll
   libpq.dll
   libswish-e.dll
   libtiff.dll
   libxml2.dll
   lti_dsdk_cdll.dll
   lti_dsdk_dll.dll
   mapserv.exe
   msql.dll
   msvcp71.dll
   msvcr71.dll
   netcdf.dll
   ntwdblib.dll
   pdflib.dll
   proj.dll
   shapelib.dll
   sqlite3.dll
   ssleay32.dll
   szlibdll.dll
   xerces-c_2_7.dll
   zlib1.dll
   

4. For PHP/Mapscript, goto /ms4w/Apache/php/ext/ and copy the php_mapscript.dll file into your own PHP extensions directory. Csharp, Java, and Python mapscript files can be found in /ms4w/Apache/cgi-bin/mapscript/

5. For the commandline utilities that come with MS4W (mapserv, gdal, etc.) copy all of the .exe files from /ms4w/tools/ to a desired location, but be aware that these utilities use dlls that were installed in the cgi-bin directory. Therefore you must add your cgi-bin directory into your Windows PATH environment variable before running the utilities.

6. Microsoft IIS users should refer to the IIS Howto for MapServer.

Copyright/Licensing Information

Copyright (c) 2003-2008, Jeff McKenna, DM Solutions Group Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Portions of this computer program are copyright (c) 1995-2005 LizardTech, Inc. All rights reserved. MrSID is protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,710,835. Foreign Patents Pending.

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