Thursday, March 24, 2011

Gotchas when setting up MapServer via MS4W 3.0 on Server 2008 x64

Download the latest zip from here. The file used in this instance was ms4w_3.0.1.zip.
After following the instructions on  How to install MS4W, on step 3 you should be able to see the MS4W page but instead you get an "Internal Server Error". Searching on the net I found this posting which implies you need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86). So trying that worked after restarting apache.

Even if you are using a 64bit machine, you still need to use x86 installer.
(Just as a reminder also make sure you allow access to port 80 for apache.)

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