Knowledgebase - MapServerPro

About the cgi-bin directory Unlike many hosting providers, the cgi-bin directory is wholly your own. This allows you to have...

Connecting To MapserverPro via SSH Connecting to the shell is essential for almost every user. For those not familiar or confortable...

EPSG Policies Currently our projections file is shared by all users. We try to keep up to date, but we will...

Managing Databases MapserverPro provides extensive support for PostgreSQL, MySQL. All PostgreSQL databases are...

Mapserver CGI / MapScript After reading this section, please see Using MapserverPro Installers (Shell Based) for more...

Plesk & cPanel All accounts come standard with either Plesk or cPanel. Think on this as your Control Panel for...

Plesk App Vault The Plesk App Vault provides easy installation of popular portal software such as Joomla and...

Plesk Preview Limitations The Site Preview feature of the Plesk Panel provides only a basic view of your page code. Due to...

Removing Default Page and Demo Applications We install demo applications into every new account. Some users like to start with a clean slate....

Subdomains A subdomain is a way to segregate areas of you site for specific uses. For example...

The vhost.conf file The vhost.conf file is a place where you can configure certain aspects of your domain. Modifying...

Uploading Files We provide multiple methods to get your data uploaded to our servers. We will quickly touch on...

Using MapserverPro Installers (Shell Based) Our GIS installers are shell based. You will need to login to your account via ssh to use the...

Where are my temporary files? Due to the nature of Web based Mapping software, many temporary files are created when viewing...

MapFish Install Installing MapFish requires some skill. Due to the level of interaction and personal preferences...