Making our mojoPortal sites even more secure I’ve just run a couple of our mojoPortal web sites through the test on https://asafaweb.com and thought I’d write up some notes on how to get the best possible test results (and therefore presumably... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 10 April 2014 Categories: IIS mojoPortal Security Comments(1)
How to install the latest version of Mapserver as a Windows CGI application This is intended to be a simple guide to producing a working MapServer CGI installation on Windows and IIS, suitable for serving up Web Mapping Services (WMS) or Web Feature Services (WFS), from the... read more Posted by 18 March 2014 Categories: MapServer Comments(3)
How to supply default values to MapServer runtime variables (using version 6.0x) MapServer allows certain elements of the map file to be altered at runtime by passing in variables on the URL. This only applies when MapServer is running as a CGI application, and is documented... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 17 March 2014 Categories: MapServer Comments(0)
Remote connection to SQL server on dynamic ports SQL server has conventionally used port 1433. However recently Microsoft made some changes and when suing named instanced you are likely to find your SQL Server is using dynamic ports. This means ... read more Posted by 02 March 2014 Categories: SQL Server Comments(1)
Calling a secured WMS / WFS service from mapserver Mapserver can be used in a cascading manner to call to other services, potentially combining them and maybe re-projecting before serving out again. Reasons for this might... read more Posted by 03 February 2014 Categories: GIS (general) MapServer Comments(1)
When Remote Desktop can’t find the computer I’ve been modifying the configuration on a Windows Server 2008 R2 application server to use Remote Desktop Gateway and a SSL certificate, instead of raw RDP over port 3389. After installing the RD ... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 05 January 2014 Categories: Remote Desktop Windows Server 2008 Comments(3)
When RD Web Access doesn’t work with Internet Explorer 11 We found that our Remote Desktop Web Access didn’t work with IE11. Browsing to the /RDweb page produced this message: “Browser Not Supported This Web browser is not supported by RD Web... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 03 January 2014 Categories: IIS Remote Desktop Comments(2)
Using R with spatial data R is a cross platform statistical package which is becoming extremely widely used. It is modular and so there are all sorts of add ins available, including a number of sophisticated tools for... read more Posted by 28 December 2013 Categories: GIS (general) OGR/GDAL Projections SQL Server Comments(0)
How to make links open in a colorbox popup in mojoPortal (without writing any code) I came across this by chance buried in some documentation about optimising mojoPortal site performance, so thought I’d make a note. If you want a link to open within a popup in the page, rather than... read more Posted by Crispin Flower 17 December 2013 Categories: mojoPortal Comments(0)
mojoPortal not showing ColorBox If your users complain that they can't see your nice pretty Colorbox popup add: IncludeColorbox="true" to the scriptloader in layout.master The ColorBox is included in the admin combiner, but... read more Posted by 22 November 2013 Categories: jQuery mojoPortal Comments(1)