MS4W - MapServer for Windows - version 5.2.0

Introduction

Welcome to MS4W v5.2.0, 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
• local services:
  • WMS
  • GetCapabilities | GetMap | SLD | GetFeatureInfo
  • WFS
  • GetCapabilities | GetFeature in GeoJSON / GML / Shapefile(zip) / KMZ / SpatiaLite / FlatGeobuf / CSV
  • OGCAPI Features
  • Landing page | API

Features

MS4W contains default installations of Apache, PHP, MapServer, 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 2.4.67
• PHP 8.4.21
• GDAL 3.14.0-dev
• Python 3.12.13
• MapServer CGI 8.7-dev at /cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
• MapScript 8.7-dev flavours:
• php_mapscript.dll at \ms4w\Apache\php\ext (quickmap.php)
• 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:
• introduction
• owtchart.exe (sample request)
• H264 Streaming Module for Apache
• OGR/PHP extension (see project home)

Applications

There are currently 11 MS4W addon packages installed.

GeoMoose 3.15.1 on MS4W:

• Desktop app
• Desktop app (Service examples)
• Mobile app
• project home

HTML Legend Demo on MS4W

Demo

Documentation

Mapbender 4.2.5 on MS4W:

• Demo Applications
• Documentation

MapCache Tile Server on MS4W:

local Demo

configure steps

project home

MapServer CGI Viewer on MS4W:

Viewer

MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop on MS4W:

Workshop

Mapbox Vector Tiles served through MapServer + MS4W:

local Demo

documentation home

OpenLayers 10.9.0 on MS4W

MapServer WMS Example (GetFeatureInfo)

All Examples

project home

pycsw Catalogue Service through MS4W:

local catalogue GetCapabilities | GetRecords

configure steps

project home

Tinyows WFS-Transaction Service through MS4W:

tinyows.exe

local Demo

configure steps

project home

WCS Service through MS4W:

mapfile at \ms4w\apps\wcs-demo\wms-tiled.map

sample requests: GetCapabilities | DescribeCoverage | GetCoverage

test in QGIS (Add Layer / Add WCS Layer) using url

created by following: enable tileindex layers for WCS