InstallMapserverTikiwikiGentoo

We are supposing you got Tikiwiki already installed and running under Apache, Mysql and Php (using latest dev-lang/php layout).

Please also read as reference http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Maps+Install.

Installing Mapserver using Gentoo is simple, as Mapserver has an ebuild in portage.

$ echo "sci-libs/gdal geos" >> /etc/portage/package.use
$ emerge gdal
$ emerge '=dev-lang/php'
$ echo "sci-geosciences/mapserver ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
$ emerge "sci-geosciences/mapserver"

after the emerge, there should be a php_mapscript.so php extension in /usr/lib/php(4,5)/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-<somedate>

you should have a MapScript? part up until now, lets configure for easy tikwiki setup

setup php.ini, add to the file

extension=php_mapscript.so

create maps dirs

$ mkdir /var/www/html/map
$ mkdir /var/www/html/map/data
$ mkdir /var/www/html/map/fonts
$ mkdir /var/www/html/map/graphics
$ mkdir /var/www/html/map/images

use map from doc.tikwiki.org tutorial to get started, maybe worldmap will be provided later on... go on to: http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Maps+Mapfile+Tutorial ...

or download the tikiwiki mapdata and extract it to /var/www/html/map (see README and Install)

$ cd /var/www/html/map
$ tar -xjf tikiwiki-mapdata-0.1.tar.bz2
$ mv ./tikiwiki-mapdata-0.1/* ./
$ rm -fr ./tikiwiki-mapdata-0.1/

lets give apache all rights, be careful on prod so install vhosts.conf described later.

$ chown -R apache /var/www/html/map

Apache user must be able to modify mapfiles and able to save layers file, but httpd must not be allowed to download or run them directly or you have a security risk. Too easy to upload a .php file and then make it run....

link /map to tikiwiki root (to serve stuff from under tiki)

$ ln -s /var/www/html/map <yourtikiroot>/map

edit /etc/apache/vhosts.d/vhosts.conf (should be Included in httpd.conf), or you could add this to tikiroot/.htaccess

#protect mapserver against downloads
<Directory /var/www/html/map>
AllowOverride All
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</IfModule>
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html/map/images>
AllowOverride All
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfModule>
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html/map/graphics>
AllowOverride All
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
<IfModule mod_access.c>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</IfModule>
</Directory>

restart apache

$ /etc/init.d/apache stop
$ /etc/init.d/apache start

now configure Tikiwiki to use /var/www/html/map as maps root: go to your tiki site's admin, and now setup the necessary stuff there:

• goto admin/features turn on Maps
• goto admin/Maps and set the proper directory for maps
  • http://yourtikiwiki.org/tiki-admin.php?page=maps
• set the default map to world.map (if you have extracted the tikiwiki-mapdata tarball)

open tiki-map.phtml see what happens ;)

see Navigating Maps Tutorial on docs for more

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clean out the temporary images once in a while:

use something like tmpreaper or tmpwatch to clean /var/www/html/map/images add to /etc/cron.hourly/:

$ /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 2 /var/www/html/map/images/

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for more see http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Maps%20Install

and http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc/mapfile-reference.html for more specs

• google maps...

add more...

• http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Maps+Mapfile+Tutorial&bl
• http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Maps%20Admin

• http://www.sopac.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=MapServerSoftware

• http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=59&highlight=mapserver

• http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=112&highlight=mapserver
• http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=84&highlight=mapserver
• http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=64&highlight=mapserver

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