Configuring the Mapfile

Initial Setup

You need to ensure that Mapserver is setup to server as a WMS/WFS server. If you are not sure, please visit WMS Server HowTo and WFS Server HowTo.

The mapfiles themselves need to be setup manually per Mapserver setup - ARK will not write these for you unfortunately, so its worth undertaking the mapfile setup alongside the official mapfile documentation.

Example Mapfile

ARK uses two different mapfiles, the ark_wfs.map and ark_wms.php. These are found within the ark directory structure in mapserver/mapfiles/.

The files themselves should be reasonably self-explanatory if you have used Mapserver before.

Header

MAP NAME "ARK WMS Map" IMAGETYPE PNG24 EXTENT 533866 180940 533963 181000 SIZE 600 400 SHAPEPATH "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/tutorial_ark/data/mapping/" IMAGECOLOR 250 250 250 FONTSET "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/tutorial_ark/mapserver/fonts/fonts.list" SYMBOLSET "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/tutorial_ark/mapserver/symbols/symbols35.sym" DEBUG ON

WEB

METADATA "wms_name" "ARK WMS"

   "wms_title"			"ARK WMS"
   "wms_onlineresource"	"http://www.lparchaeology.com/prescot/ark/php/map/ark_wxs_server.php" 
   "wms_srs"			"EPSG:27700"

"wms_feature_info_mime_type" "text/html" "wms_server_version" "1.1.1" END

IMAGEPATH 'C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/tutorial_ark/mapserver/tmp/' IMAGEURL '/mapserver/tmp/' MAXSCALE 20000000 MINSCALE 500 LOG '/srv/www/htdocs/fasti/mapserver/mapfiles/ms_log.txt'

END

OUTPUTFORMAT

   NAME "png"
   MIMETYPE "image/png"
   DRIVER "GD/PNG"
   EXTENSION "png"
   IMAGEMODE "RGB"
 END

PROJECTION

1. Basic initial projection should be in ETRS89 / ETRS-LCC
2. This projection will also be dynamically set by the PHP

"init=epsg:27700"

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