• Welcome to the Mapserver Hardware and Software Installation Guide
  • The hardware
  • The software
  • Implementations
  • Install a demo on Windows or Linux
• Tutorial
• Contact

Welcome to the Mapserver Hardware and Software Installation Guide

The hardware

The Mapserver Hardware Installation Guide provides a detailed account of how to install your Mapserver Hardware from start to finish. Click on the link below to learn more about the Mapserver Hardware Installation

• Installing your Mapserver Hardware

The software

The Mapserver Software Installation provides a detailed account of how to install your Mapserver Software including PHP, MySql, MapServer and phpMyAdmin etc. You can also load the kamap interface into the MapServer. To learn more about your Mapserver Software Installation click on the link below.

• Installing your Mapserver Software

Implementations

The Mapserver has been implemented in the following countries:
Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Install a demo on Windows or Linux

If you need to evaluate Tikiwiki with the maps feature you can play a virtual machine on any PC with the VMPlayer. This virtual machine includes Mandriva-2006, Tikiwiki-1.9.3.1 and mapserver-4.6

Requirements:

• 2GB free space on Hard Drive
• 64MB of free memory (real or paged/swap)
• MS-Windows or Linux
• A Network Card that is assigned automatically an IP address

Installation

• Download the free VMPlayer from VMWare
• Download the Tikiwiki virtual machine tikiwiki.zip(375MB) or tikiwiki.tar.bz2(356MB) tikiwiki.zip (high speed)
• Unzip/Untar the Virtual Machine
• Play it

When the system has finished to boot it will display the configuration of the network card. Locate eth0 IP address, you can now fire up your browser on your host machine and point it to this IP address.

Tutorial

We are using Google Video to put a tutorial on the various functions of Tikiwiki in its installation as a GeoCMS.

GeoCMS Tutorial

Contact

Please feel free to submit all queries to: franck@sopac.org