• GeoDSK

  First of all we need GeoSDK from Lizardtech (You’ll be asked to register to be able to download it). The file comes in several flavours (different kernel, gcc, glibc and libstdc++ versions), the one that best suits us is the gcc 3.4 one [Geo_DSDK-6.0.7.1407.linux.x86.gcc34.tar.gz].

  Current RHEL5 gcc version is 4.2 but there are compat packages for gcc-3.4. We need them:

  rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4.i386.rpm /mnt/cd2/Server/compat-gcc
-34-c++-3.4.6-4.i386.rpm

  Now it’s time to untar GeoSDK to a suitable location:

  tar xzvf Geo_DSDK-6.0.7.1407.linux.x86.gcc34.tar.gz -C /usr/local/

  This is a binary distribution so no more work is needed here.

• GDAL

  Support is actually provided by GDAL library so we have to recompile it using our compat gcc and libstdc++ packages.

  CC=gcc34 CXX=g++34 ./configure --with-png \
--with-libtiff \
--with-jpeg \
--with-gif \
--with-pg=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \
--with-geos \
--with-odbc \
--with-mrsid=/usr/local/Geo_DSDK-6.0.7.1407/
make
make install
ldconfig

Done! Of course, you may refer to my main article on MapServer 5 for all the details.

UPDATE: I’ve also written a HOWTO on adding support for mrsid image format in MapServer5.

• This first item is just for the sake of comfort, I don’t like to walk to our datacenter to change a CD/DVD, so I import the CD images using NFS and then loop mount them. So, first of all, we’ll mount the CD Images:
  for i in `seq 1 5`; do mount -t iso9660 -o loop /RedHatCDs/rhel-5-server-i386-disc$i.iso /mnt/cd$i; done
• WEB SERVER

  We need a web server with PHP and freetds support. (FreeTDS is needed to access Microsoft SQLServer or Sybase databases). We’ll start with apache rpm’s and some dependencies:

  rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1.i386.rpm
rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/mx-2.0.6-2.2.2.i386.rpm
rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/httpd-2.2.3-6.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.i386.rpm

  Now we are ready to compile freetds from source. We must rename the tgz package as freetds-version.tar.gz else rpmbuild won’t work.

  cd
wget http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/stable/freetds-stable.tgz
mv freetds-stable.tgz freetds-0.64.tar.gz
rpmbuild -ta freetds-0.64.tar.gz
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/freetds-0.64-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/freetds-devel-0.64-1.i386.rpm

  rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/freetds-unixodbc-0.64-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/freetds-devel-0.64-1.i386.rpm

  Now we’ll simply install PHP packages.

  rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/php-cli-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/php-common-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/php-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd3/Server/php-gd-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd3/Server/php-pgsql-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/php-odbc-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/php-pdo-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm

  Some PHP parameters have to be tweaked in /etc/php.ini:

  max_execution_time = 150
  max_input_time = 200
  memory_limit = 256M
  error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
  display_errors = On ; To debug errors
  register_long_arrays = On
  extension_dir = “/usr/lib/php/modules”

  /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf also needs some slight changes. First one is under dir_module section

  <IfModule dir_module>
  DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
  </if module>

  Second one is in AddType block, we’ll add php extensions there:

  AppType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml
  AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

  Now we’ll test the server.

  /etc/init.d/httpd start

  Any browser should be able to show Apache’s start page.

  lynx http://localhost

  To test php, we’ll write an ultra tiny page and browse there.

  echo "<?php phpinfo (); ?>" > /var/www/html/info.php
lynx http://localhost/info.php

  All PHP options and Apache should be on that page. If everything is OK, it’s time to add apache to autostart scripts.

  chkconfig httpd on

  Our web server is ready for the fiesta It’s time to move on and work on the database backend.

• POSTGRES

  We’ll work from source here, so we have to download, configure, make and install. Easy stuff!

  cd
wget http://ftp5.es.postgresql.org/mirror/postgresql//source/v8.2.6/postgresql-8.2.6.tar.bz2
tar xjvf postgresql-8.2.6.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/postgresql-8.2.6/
LDFLAGS=-lstdc++ ./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/pgsql \
--with-perl \
--with-python \
--with-krb5 \
--with-openssl
make
make install

  We still have to configure everything.

  First of all, we create the data directory.

  mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data

  This directory must be owned by user postgres and group postgres, so we need them both:

  groupadd -r postgres
adduser postgres -g postgres
chown postgres:postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data/

  We should use user postgres everytime we use the database. It’s a good time to set a password for it.

  passwd postgres
su - postgres
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ -U postgres -W
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ -l /usr/local/pgsql/data/logfile
exit

  If everything works, we also have to write an script for the autostart of the server in/etc/init.d/postgresql:

  
#!/bin/sh
# postgresql This is the init script for starting up the
# PostgreSQL server
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: Starts and stops the PostgreSQL backend daemon that handles all database requests.
# processname: postmaster
# pidfile: /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Get config.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Check that networking is up.
# Pretty much need it for postmaster.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -f /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster ] || exit 0
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
pid=`pidof pg_ctl`
if [ $pid ]
then
echo "Postgres already running."
else
echo -n "Starting postgresql service: "
su -l postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ -l /usr/local/pgsql/data/logfile start'
sleep 1
echo
exit
fi
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping postgresql service: "
su -l postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ stop'
sleep 2
rm -f /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid
echo
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
status)
su -l postgres -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ status'
;;
*)
echo "Usage: postgresql {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0

  These are the orders to write it an add to autostart:

  vi /etc/init.d/postgresql
chmod 700 /etc/init.d/postgresql
/etc/init.d/postgresql restart
/etc/init.d/postgresql status
chkconfig --add postgresql

• POSTGIS

  We’ll need Proj library, but it’s pretty easy to build.

  wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-4.5.0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf proj-4.5.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/proj-4.5.0/
./configure
make
make install

  GEOS library should be easy too.

  cd
wget http://geos.refractions.net/downloads/geos-3.0.0.tar.bz2
tar xjvf geos-3.0.0.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/geos-3.0.0/
./configure
make
make install

  PostGIS compilation won’t start the problems yet

  cd
wget http://www.postgis.org/download/postgis-1.3.2.tar.gz
tar xvzf postgis-1.3.2.tar.gz -C /usr/local/postgresql-8.2.6/contrib/
cd /usr/local/postgresql-8.2.6/contrib/postgis-1.3.2/
./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config
make
make install

  Installation deserves some more talking. First we need to add one line to /etc/ld.so.conf so the libraries are usable in exec time.

  echo "/usr/local/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf

  Binaries are in /usr/local/pgsql/bin, it may be worth to add this to th path.

  Libraries are in /usr/local/pgsql/lib, so we add this to /etc/ld.so.conf too.
  echo "/usr/local/pgsql/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
rm /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5
ln -s /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5.0 /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.5
ldconfig

  This ends PostGIS Installation. You can create a test db and add the extensions as a test:

  /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb --encoding latin1 test -u
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createlang plpgsql test -u
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -d test -f /usr/local/pgsql/share/lwpostgis.sql -u
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -d test -f /usr/local/pgsql/share/spatial_ref_sys.sql -u

  Last two orders should end with COMMIT and VACUUM respectively, if all went as expected.

• MAPSERVER

  Now, all the infraestructure is in place so it’s time to start with the libraries that MapServer will use.

  GDAL permits to use most common GIS formats.

  cd
wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.5.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf gdal-1.5.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/gdal-1.5.0/
./configure --with-png --with-libtiff --with-jpeg --with-gif --with-pg=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config --with-geos --with-odbc
make
make install
ldconfig

  Every other dependency has a rpm package. One exception, AGG also has an rpm but MapServer won’t build with that version, we’ll build from source that one.

  rpm -i /mnt/cd3/Server/php-devel-5.1.6-5.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i /mnt/cd1/Server/gd-2.0.33-9.3.fc6.i386.rpm
rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/gd-devel-2.0.33-9.3.fc6.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/fontconfig-devel-2.4.1-6.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/freetype-devel-2.2.1-16.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libX11-devel-1.0.3-8.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libjpeg-devel-6b-37.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libpng-devel-1.2.10-7.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libXau-devel-1.0.1-3.1.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libXdmcp-devel-1.0.1-2.1.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.1-9.fc6.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-7.2.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/SDL-1.2.10-8.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -i /mnt/cd2/Server/SDL-devel-1.2.10-8.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/alsa-lib-devel-1.0.12-3.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/mesa-libGLU-devel-6.5.1-7.2.el5.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libXext-devel-1.0.1-2.1.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libXrandr-devel-1.1.1-3.1.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libXrender-devel-0.9.1-3.1.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libXt-devel-1.0.2-3.1.fc6.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libSM-devel-1.0.1-3.1.i386.rpm \
/mnt/cd2/Server/libICE-devel-1.0.1-2.1.i386.rpm
wget http://www.antigrain.com/agg-2.5.tar.gz
tar xzvf agg-2.5.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/agg-2.5/
aclocal
autoheader
autoconf
libtoolize --force
automake --foreign --add-missing --ignore-deps
./configure
make
make install

  Almost done. Before compiling, one detail, max number of symbol objects in a dataset is defined in mapsymbol.h (/usr/local/mapserver-5.0.0/mapsymbol.h after untaring) in line:

  #define MS_SYMBOL_ALLOCSIZE 64 /* number of symbolObj ptrs to allocate for a symbolset at once */

  If you use more than 64 symbols (I do), change it before compiling.

  
cd
wget http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-5.0.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf mapserver-5.0.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/
cd /usr/local/mapserver-5.0.0/
./configure \
--with-proj=/usr/local/proj-4.5.0 \
--with-geos=/usr/local/bin/geos-config \
--with-ogr=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-postgis=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config \
--with-curl-config=/usr/bin/curl-config \
--with-httpd=/usr/sbin/httpd \
--with-php=/usr/include/php \
--with-wfs \
--with-wfsclient \
--with-wmsclient \
--enable-debug \
--with-threads \
--with-wcs \
--with-wcsclient \
--with-sos \
--with-gd \
--with-freetype \
--with-jpeg \
--with-agg=/usr/local/
make clean
make

  Installation is made ‘by hand’:

  
echo "cp mapserv legend scalebar shp2img shptree shptreetst shptreevis sortshp tile4ms /var/www/cgi-bin/"> install.sh
echo "./mapserv -v" >> install.sh
echo "service httpd reload" >> install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh


  To test it:

  ./mapserv -v

  The server will answer with its installled features. Then copy the PHP module to it’s place and reload Apache.

  cp /usr/local/mapserver-5.0.0/mapscript/php3/php_mapscript.so /usr/lib/php/modules/
service httpd reload

  Done!!!.

• DEMO

  If you want to test your brand new server, you can use Itasca demo:

  
cd
wget http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/workshop-5.0.zip
unzip workshop-5.0.zip
mv workshop-5.0 /var/www/html/
chown apache:apache /var/www/*
chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/workshop-5.0/
mkdir /var/www/html/tmp
chmod 777 /var/www/html/tmp

  Before toying with it, change these lines in /var/www/html/workshop-5.0/index.html:

  // EDIT THE NEXT 2 LINES TO MATCH YOUR SETUP
var snippet = "IMAGEPATH '/var/www/html/tmp/'";
snippet += " IMAGEURL '/tmp/'";


  Browse to http://localhost/workshop-5.0/index.html and enjoy!

• THE END