Debian 10 GIS Server

Installation

Howto turn a Debian 10 box (netinstall) into a OWS Server - with apache2 & PostgreSQL

Update System

apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade
apt-get clean

Install Admin Tools

apt-get -y install curl dos2unix htop mlocate p7zip unzip vim mc
apt-get clean

Install further helpful things

apt-get -y install apache2 libapache2-mod-php cgi-mapserver postgresql-11-postgis-2.5 gdal-bin postgresql-11-ogr-fdw php-xml libproj13
apt-get clean

Activate mapserver

a2enmod cgi
systemctl restart apache2

Adopt epsg file to support beta2007 transformation

cd /usr/share/proj
cp epsg epsg_old

Create postgres cluster and start it

pg_createcluster 11 {clustername}
pg_ctlcluster 11 {clustername} start

Path for conf files: /etc/postgresql/11/{clustername}

The port of the first cluster will be 5433, it will increment with the number of clusters.

Edit conf files

vi /etc/postgresql/11/{clustername}/postgresql.conf

• Uncomment listen_addresses ...
• exchange localhost with *

Restart cluster

pg_ctlcluster 11 {clustername} restart