In this tutorial, we will learn how to install TileServer PHP on OpenBSD. TileServer PHP is a modern solution for serving map tiles, and it offers a simple and easy-to-use interface for setting up and serving maps.
Before we start with the installation process, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
First, we have to install PHP and related packages. We can do this using the OpenBSD package manager, which allows us to install, remove and update packages easily.
$ doas pkg_add php php-curl php-json
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. We will use Composer to install and manage TileServer PHP. To install Composer, we need to run the following commands:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ doas mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Once we have installed PHP and Composer, we can now proceed with installing TileServer PHP. To install TileServer PHP, we have to clone the repository from GitHub.
$ git clone https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-php.git
After cloning the repository, move to the newly created directory:
$ cd tileserver-php
Now we will run the following command to install TileServer PHP dependencies:
$ composer install
After successfully installing TileServer PHP and downloading its dependencies, we need to configure TileServer PHP to work with our map data.
We can do this by editing config.php file found in the TileServer PHP folder. Open the file with your text editor:
$ nano config.php
In the config.php, we can set the paths to our map data, specify the map projections, and configure other settings.
Now that we have configured TileServer PHP, we can start the server by running the following command:
$ php server.php
TileServer PHP will now start serving map tiles on port 8080 on your OpenBSD machine.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured TileServer PHP on OpenBSD. You can now use TileServer PHP to serve tiles for your maps.
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