MS4W - MapServer for Windows - version 4.0.4
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Introduction
Welcome to MS4W v4.0.4, the MapServer package for Windows, developed by Gateway Geomatics.
MS4W is designed to get you up and running with MapServer with very little
configuration.
There are some important notes about MS4W:
- Pre-configured addon packages for MS4W can be downloaded from the
MS4W Downloads
page.
Documentation
Please view your local README file for full documentation
about your MS4W package.
Local Test Map
mapfile at \ms4w\apps\local-demo\local.map
open map viewer in new window
Features
MS4W contains default installations of Apache, PHP, MapServ, MapScript
and some sample applications. It is structured in such a way as to allow
upgrading individual components without affecting the install.
The base installer package comes pre-configured with the following software:
- Apache 2.4.43
- PHP 7.2.31
- GDAL 2.4.4
- Python 3.7.8
- MapServer CGI 7.7.0-dev at /cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
- MapScript 7.7.0-dev flavours:
- php_mapscript.dll at \ms4w\Apache\php\ext
- CSharp mapscript at \ms4w\msplugins\mapscript\csharp
- Java mapscript at \ms4w\msplugins\mapscript\java
- Python mapscript at \ms4w\msplugins\mapscript\python
- Commandline Utilities
- execute \ms4w\setenv.bat to use the utilities
- MapServer Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\mapserv\
- GDAL/OGR Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\gdal-ogr\
- Spatialite Tools (including OSM Tools)
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\spatialite\
- osm2pgsql Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\osm2pgsql\
- PROJ Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\proj\bin\
- Shapelib Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\shapelib\
- Shpdiff Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\shpdiff\
- Shp2tile Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\shp2tile\
- AVCE00 Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\avce00\
- Unix Utils
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\unixutils\
- OWTChart utility:
- H264 Streaming Module for Apache
- OGR/PHP extension (see project home)
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echo "until this file is removed.";
}
else
{
echo "Note: old index.phtml page sucessfully removed (you will not";
echo "see this message again)
";
}
}
if (is_dir($szDir))
{
if ($hDir = opendir($szDir))
{
while (($szFile = readdir( $hDir )) !== false)
{
if ( strcasecmp( substr( $szFile, -9 ), ".pkg.html" ) == 0 )
{
$szApps .= implode( "\n", file( $szDir."/".$szFile ) )."\n";
$nApps ++;
}
}
closedir( $hDir );
}
else
{
echo "No packages, unable to open $szDir.
";
}
}
else
{
echo "No packages, $szDir is not a directory.
";
}
?>
Applications
There currently
MS4W addon package
installed.