Mapbender at mapbender.telascience.org

Status of mapbender.telascience.org

 * 2010-05-19: Down
 * 2010-05-29: Up
 * 2010-06-03: Down
 * 2010-06-04: Up

This server is internally known as xblade10-2 and is mapped to IP 198.202.74.215. It runs:
 * Mapbender (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
 * demo.mapserver.org
 * GeoNetwork opensource website
 * http://geonetwork-opensource.org
 * http://geonetwork-opensource.telascience.org

Participants

 * User:Astrid Emde (astrid_emde@osgeo.org)
 * Christoph Baudson
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Uli Rothstein
 * Michael Schulz
 * Verena Diewald

Services on this Blade

 * Mapbender
 * PostgreSQL/PostGIS

Mapbender
/var/www/html/mapbender/
 * every Mapbender version is presented on this server http://mapbender.telascience.org/
 * if you need root access to the demo mapbender ask the participants (see above)
 * the home for the Mapbender packages is:
 * the update of the mapbender version is done by svn
 * we offer a portal function so user can login and try the applications
 * as adminstrative database we use PostgreSQl/PostGIS

Apache

 * we added an ALIAS for each Mapbender versions:
 * /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Mapbender Database
createdb -U postgres -E UTF8 -T mapbender_2.5 mapbender_2.6 (postgis_template)
 * create the database for the next version
 * take the last version as template (check the guis first - everything still allright?)

directory and svn checkout
cd /var/www/html/mapbender sudo bash mkdir mapbender_2.5 svn co https://svn.osgeo.org/mapbender/branches/2.5 /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/ -- for update use: svn up https://svn.osgeo.org/mapbender/branches/2.5 /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/ chown apache /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/log chown apache /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/http/tmp rm -r /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/http/tools

add the alias to Apache httpd.conf
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Alias /mapbender_2.5     /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/http/

restart Apache
/usr/sbin/apachectl configtest /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful

create mapbender.conf and configure it
cp /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/mapbender.conf-dist /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5/mapbender.conf
 * if possible use the Mapbender database which is already in use with the older Mapbender Verson
 * vor Mapbender 2.5 I (AE) had to create a new Mapbender database (mapbender_2.5)

create the symbolic link current_release with ln -s ...
rm /var/www/html/mapbender/current_release
 * drop current symbolic link

ln -s /var/www/html/mapbender/mapbender_2.5 /var/www/html/mapbender/current_release
 * create it again with path to actual mapbender version

create new link in html start page index.html http://mapbender.telascience.org/
vim /var/www/html/mapbender/index.html