MS4W - MapServer for Windows - version 4.0.5 (official demo server hosted by GatewayGeo)
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Introduction
Welcome to MS4W v4.0.5, the MapServer package for Windows, developed by GatewayGeo.
MS4W is designed to get you up and running with MapServer with very little
configuration.
There are some important notes about MS4W:
- Pre-configured addon packages for MS4W can be downloaded from the
MS4W Downloads
page.
Documentation
Please view your local README file for full documentation
about your MS4W package.
Local Test Map
mapfile at \ms4w\apps\local-demo\local.map
open map viewer in new window
Features
MS4W contains default installations of Apache, PHP, MapServ, MapScript
and some sample applications. It is structured in such a way as to allow
upgrading individual components without affecting the install.
The base installer package comes pre-configured with the following software:
- Apache 2.4.46
- PHP 7.4.13
- GDAL 2.4.4
- Python 3.9.1
- MapServer CGI 7.7.0-dev at /cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
- MapScript 7.7.0-dev flavours:
- php_mapscript.dll at \ms4w\Apache\php\ext
- CSharp mapscript at \ms4w\msplugins\mapscript\csharp
- Java mapscript at \ms4w\msplugins\mapscript\java
- Python mapscript at \ms4w\msplugins\mapscript\python
- Commandline Utilities
- execute \ms4w\setenv.bat to use the utilities
- MapServer Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\mapserv\
- GDAL/OGR Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\gdal-ogr\
- Spatialite Tools (including OSM Tools)
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\spatialite\
- osm2pgsql Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\osm2pgsql\
- PROJ Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\proj\bin\
- Shapelib Utilities
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\shapelib\
- Shpdiff Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\shpdiff\
- Shp2tile Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\shp2tile\
- AVCE00 Utility
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\avce00\
- Unix Utils
- physically located at \ms4w\tools\unixutils\
- OWTChart utility:
- H264 Streaming Module for Apache
- OGR/PHP extension (see project home)
Applications
There are currently
12 MS4W addon packages installed.
GeoMoose 3.8.0 on MS4W:
Mapbender 3.3.0 on MS4W:
MapCache Tile Server on MS4W:
local Demo
configure steps
project home
MapServer CGI Viewer
Viewer
MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop
Workshop
MapServer Tutorial
Tutorial
Matomo Analytics 4.0.5 on MS4W:
Local Analytics
*requires local MySQL server installation
project home
Mapbox Vector Tiles served through MapServer + MS4W:
local Demo
documentation home
OpenLayers 6.4.3 on MS4W
MapServer WMS Example
All Examples
project home
pycsw Catalogue Service through MS4W:
local catalogue GetCapabilities
configure steps
project home
Tinyows WFS-Transaction Service through MS4W:
tinyows.exe
local Demo
configure steps
project home
ZOO-Project WPS Services through MS4W:
configure steps
local OGR Services demo
local GetCapabilities
DescribeProcess MapServer Service (to generate a WFS service and mapfile)
Execute MapServer Service (displays the generated WFS service URL in the response)
the generated mapfile will be created in \ms4w\apps\zoo-project\data\
DescribeProcess HelloPHP (PHP Service)
Execute HelloPHP (PHP Service)
DescribeProcess HelloPy (Python Service)
Execute HelloPy (Python Service)
DescribeProcess BufferPy (Python Service)
Execute BufferPy (Python Service on remote WFS feature: Antarctica)
DescribeProcess Buffer (OGR Service)
Execute Buffer (OGR Service on remote WFS feature: Antarctica)
DescribeProcess Ogr2Ogr, Boundary, Centroid, Contains, ConvexHull, Crosses, Difference, Disjoint, Distance, Equals,
GetArea, Intersection, Intersects, IsSimple, IsValid, Simplify, SymDifference, Touches, Union, Within (OGR Services)
DescribeProcess Gdal_Translate, Gdal_Contour, Gdal_Dem, Gdal_Grid , GdalExtractProfile, Gdal_Warp (GDAL Services)
DescribeProcess HelloMono (C# Service)
Execute HelloMono (C# Service)
DescribeProcess HelloWorldJava (Java Service)
Execute HelloWorldJava (Java Service)
DescribeProcess GetStatus
project home