ScribeUI is an application to create mapfiles with many scale levels.

To get the latest release, clone this repo and then checkout v0.1.1

• Apache
• Python (tested with 2.7.3 only)
• Mod WSGI
• Flask
• MapServer (version 6.0 or higher)
• Sqlite3

You can install them using aptitude and pip:

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi cgi-mapserver sqlite3
sudo pip install Flask

• Make a copy of the application/runserver.dist.wsgi file as application/runserver.wsgi and edit it. Change the path accordingly.

  cp application/runserver.dist.wsgi application/runserver.wsgi
  vim application/runserver.wsgi
  

• Make a copy of the config.dist.py file as config.py and edit it. Change the ip variable accordingly.

  cp config.dist.py config.py
  vim config.py
  

• To reset the sqlite3 database, open a python shell as admin from the the application directory:

  cd application
  sudo python
  

  in the python shell:

  from init import init_db
  init_db()
  

• Place elfinder-python in your cgi-bin repository (/usr/lib/cgi-bin)

  sudo cp -ap elfinder-python /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
  

• The owner of the the db folder and the workspace folder must be the current user or www-data if the application is on a server:

  sudo chown -R www-data application/db application/workspaces \
  application/www /usr/lib/cgi-bin/elfinder-python/
  

• Run the makefile to download the data

  make
  

In /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ScribeUI.conf, use the following configuration (change the path):

#ScribeUI     

WSGIScriptAlias /ScribeUI /opt/apps/ScribeUI/application/runserver.py
AddType text/html .py
<Directory /opt/apps/ScribeUI/application/templates>
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /ScribeUI/download/ "/opt/apps/ScribeUI/application/www/"
<Directory "/opt/apps/ScribeUI/application/www/">
  AllowOverride None
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>