Mapito is opensource project for editing and sharing spatial data. It is map manager, which create new map portal with any WMS layers in a few seconds. Mapito is made available under a MIT-license.
Contact information: Jakub Dubrovsky (jkdubr@hotmail.com)
Mapito is available at (https://github.com/jkdubr/Mapito) .
PHP, MySQL, PostGIS, Geoserver
Create PostGIS template database in PostGIS - template database generally created by the Postgis installer to ease the process of creating Postgis-enabled databases.
Set chmod for Mapito folder - linux: sudo chmod -R 755 /
Install CURL for PHP - ubuntu: apt-get install php5-curl
Enabled .htaccess - http://www.joeldare.com/wiki/linux:using_.htaccess_on_ubuntu
Download Mapito from GitHub (https://github.com/jkdubr/Mapito/) and prepare backend - PHP, MySQL, PostGIS and Geoserver
Mapito runs on PHP and MySQL. You can use your PHP server or free opensource solution OpenShift.
A How-to Guide for Hosting on OpenShift (http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/how-guide-hosting-openshift)
PostGIS can be install on OpenShift. Unfortunatelly now OpenShift does not support connecting to database from one OpenShift application to another. So, you have to run PostGIS somewhere else :(
How to install PostGIS (http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.3/ch02.html)
For installing Geoserver look at my previous blogpost (http://dubrovsky.posterous.com/geoserver-on-openshift) , it is easy.
Transfer Mapito on your PHP server or PUSH it to OpenShift.
You need PHP support for pgsql
apt-get install php5-pgsql
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
You need PHP support for curl
sudo apt-get install php5-curl;
sudo service apache2 restart.
Enable htaccess
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnablingUseOfApacheHtaccessFiles
You can set up Mapito in short time and run your map portal. Fill in your MySQL account for storing metadata, PostGIS account for storing GIS data, Geoserver account and URL where Mapito is. Mapito admin page URL is URL where is root Mapito page. Mapito viewer url is where Mapito map portal is. Default is http://admin.your_domain.com/module/viewer, but you can change it.
After setting up basic information is send to your mail. Your new Mapito login is your email, password is your email.
If your account is set up correctly, go to admin page and disable Mapito setup page. Enjoy map portal.
If you cannot login into Mapito admin page or have an error in database connection you can go again to setup page /install/settings.php and set up Mapito again.
example: (http://admin.mapy.mostar.cz/module/viewer/usa_radar/)