Ubuntu Notes

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FWTools

download and install

% tar xzvf FWTools-linux-0.9.5.tar.gz
% cd FWTools-linux-0.9.5
% ./install.sh

set path (or cd to bin folder)

If you use Bash as your shell add the following to your startup script (ie. ~/.bash_profile):
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/FWTools/bin_safe

or if you use csh or tcsh as your shell add the following to your .cshrc:

setenv PATH $PATH:$HOME/FWTools/bin_safe

http://fwtools.maptools.org/linux-main.html

FIREWALL CONFIG

easy configuration of firewall

ufw allow 80

ufw status

ufw enable 
ufw disable

SAMBA SHARES

INSTALL MAYA

#FIRST CONGIURE TO USE RPM 
sudo apt-get install rpm csh

#

GIS NOTES

Install postgress into php

sudo apt-get install php5-pgsql

Setup users in databse

sudo -u postgres createuser -D -A -P mynewuser
sudo -u postgres createdb -O mynewuser mydatabase

restart apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

restart postgres

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 restart

Enable postgis

psql -d keithrox -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis.sql
psql -d keithrox -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/patial_ref_sys.sql
psql -d keithrox -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis_comments.sql

TO GET FGS TALKING TO OTHER POSTGIS INSTALLS

EDIT THE PORT NUMBER IN FILE [FGS]/etc/fgs/pkgs/postgresql-server/pgsql.conf

ALL I DID WAS CHANGE PGPORT to port num of other server

PGHOME=/home/keith/fgs/apps/pgsql
PGUSER=
PGPORT=5432
PGDATA=/home/keith/fgs/apps/pgsql/data
PGLOG=/home/keith/fgs/apps/pgsql/pgsql.log
PGLIB=/home/keith/fgs/lib

install mapserver

sudo apt-get install cgi-mapserver mapserver-bin mapserver-doc php5-mapscript python-mapscript

OTHER UBUNTU NOTES

log in as root

sudo passwd root

Change resolution

 xrandr  --mode 1680x1050

SET A STATIC IP

#edit  # /etc/network/interfaces 

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.100
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.0.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1

Restart network

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingUseOfApacheHtaccessFiles
http://www.elated.com/articles/password-protecting-your-pages-with-htaccess/

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
#AllowOverride All

<Directory /var/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
                # Uncomment this directive is you want to see apache2's
                # default start page (in /apache2-default) when you go to /
                #RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
        </Directory>

links

http://www.paolocorti.net/2008/01/30/installing-postgis-on-ubuntu/

http://www.paolocorti.net/2008/01/10/installing-mapserver-in-ubuntu/

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-setup-database-server-with-postgresql-and-pgadmin3.html

http://research.dmsolutions.ca/?p=68

http://weait.com/content/build-your-own-openstreetmap-server