mapserver-dev cookbook

This cookbook provides a complete MapServer development environment. It has been updated on 2014-0-120 to work with latest mapserver, virtualbox (4.3) and vagrant (1.4.3).

After the provisioning, you'll get:

• A Ubuntu Precise 64bits machine.
• All MapServer dependencies and build tools installed.
• MapServer (Branch master, 6.4, 6.2, 6.0) source downloaded and installed.
• MapServer CGI/FCGI setup for all executables (add .fcgi for fastCGI):
  • http://localhost:8002/cgi-bin/mapserv
  • http://localhost:8002/cgi-bin/mapserv-branch-6-0
  • http://localhost:8002/cgi-bin/mapserv-branch-6-2
  • http://localhost:8002/cgi-bin/mapserv-branch-6-4
• PostgreSQL+Postgis setup with the testsuite data loaded.
• MapServer test suite available in ~/src/msautotest
• MapServer docs available in ~/src/docs
• MapServer documentation available through: http://localhost:8002/

Installation

Install the following softwares:

• Virtualbox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
• Vagrant: http://www.vagrantup.com/

Install the following vagrant plugins:

• vbguest: vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
• berkshelf: vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf

Checkout the environment:

$ git checkout https://github.com/aboudreault/mapserver_dev-cookbook.git

$ cd mapserver_dev-cookbook

Usage

Configuration

• Vagrant config: Vagrantfile.
• You might want to change some setting in attributes/default.rb. (ie locale, default to en_US-utf8)

Initial Setup

$ vagrant up

This might take some time.

Commands

• Stop the vm: vagrant halt
• Start the vm: vagrant up (provisioning is only done the first time)
• Reprovision the vm: vagrant provision or vagrant up --provision

Author

Author:: Alan Boudreault (boudreault.alan@gmail.com)