Demo.mapserver.org

Status of demo.mapserver.org

Participants

• User:Astrid Emde (astrid_emde@osgeo.org)
• Christoph Baudson

Services on this Blade

• Mapbender
• PostgreSQL/PostGIS

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:

/var/www/html/mapbender/

• 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

How to setup the current mapbender version

Mapbender Database

• create the database for the next version
• take the last version as template (check the guis first - everything still allright?)

createdb -U postgres  -E UTF8 -T mapbender_2.5 mapbender_2.6
(postgis_template)

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