[MS4W-Users] ms4w 4.00

[Jeff McKenna]

Hello YK,

Welcome to MS4W !

The installer is designed to help get moving fast with MapServer, 
automatically setting up the Apache web server, MapServer & all of its 
libraries, and also optionally installs 40+ different mapfiles, services 
and data, as well as several front-end applications to manage those 
services.

Regarding your errors of no desktop shortcut or localhost problems, I 
have seen this before when the installer has trouble using port 80, as 
Apache by default uses that port, and sometimes machines already have 
port 80 in use (through applications such as Skype, IIS, etc.).  You can 
re-run the MS4W installer and choose a different port, or :

Instead of the installer, you can instead download the .zip and extract 
it to your C:/ drive root (so then you would have C:/ms4w ), and open a 
command prompt, cd into ms4w, and then execute "setenv.bat" followed by 
executing "apache-install.bat"

That should allow you to install MS4W's Apache service.  You can modify 
the Apache port by editing C:/ms4w/Apache/conf/httpd.conf (see around 
line#52)

You mentioned "wwwroot" folder, which does not exist for Apache, but you 
can also set that directory in that same file (see the "DocumentRoot" 
parameter in C:/ms4w/Apache/conf/httpd.conf )

These steps for installing MS4W are described in more detail in the 
README at 
https://ms4w.com/README_INSTALL.html#extracting-ms4w-for-the-first-time

-jeff



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Thank you for using MS4W.
"MS4W: open doors as well as windows"


-- 
Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
https://gatewaygeomatics.com/



> I installed ms4w 4.0 latest release using the installer but :
> 1) I do not get the desktop shortcut. > 2) localhost gives me only Microsoft Edge main page (I do not even see
> anything related to mapserver in the wwwroot folder
> Please, how should I proceed?
> Thx
> YK
> 
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