Configure Web Servers to run MapGuide Web Applications on Windows

this document is written with windows 7 as the testing platform, the process may be slightly different under windows xp. Web applications are refered in mapguide project as web extensions, but they are really the same things.

Under windows, you have the options to deploy mapguide web application to either Apache, or Tomcat, or IIS

Apache2

1. Download and Install Apache2.2.16 for Windows from ​Here. Unzip the downloaded file to anywhere, in this document, we unzip it to c:\Apache2

Apache is also available under svn/mgdev/Oem/LinuxApt, which can be copy and pasted to anywhere. apache.org does not submit any build for 64-bit machines, try ​this site to obtain a binary 64-bit build.

2. add the following lines to httpd.conf

   LoadModule mod_mgmapagent modules/mod_mgmapagent.so
   include conf/mapguide.conf
   

3. Create another config file, name it mapguide.conf with the following contents(change the path accordingly for your system)

   Alias /mapguide "c:/mapguideopensource-2.2-beta1/Web/www"
   <Directory "c:/mapguideopensource-2.2-beta1/Web/www">
     AllowOverride All
     Options All
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
     AddHandler php5-script .php
     AddHandler mgmapagent_handler fcgi
     RewriteEngine on
     RewriteRule .* - [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
   </Directory>
   

Note: Attached are sample conf files.

4. start apache http server

5. Troubleshooting

visit ​this site for common apache errors

Tomcat

IIS