Mapbender Web GIS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Why the cloudimg image

The whole platform is assembled before you launch it: the web server, the PHP runtime with every extension Mapbender requires, and PostgreSQL with PostGIS are installed, tuned and wired together, and three demo map applications built from OpenStreetMap ship ready to open, so a real map renders minutes after boot instead of after an afternoon of manual installation.

Mapbender normally ships a well known super administrator with the username root and the password root. This image closes that default: it ships no account, no environment file, no application secret, no JWT keypair and no database schema at all. On the first boot of your instance a one shot service generates a unique application secret, database password and JWT material, builds the schema and the demo applications, and rotates the super administrator to a unique password, proving through the real login form that root/root is rejected before it completes. The web server and PHP runtime will not start until that has finished, so an unprovisioned instance is never reachable.

The document root is the Symfony public directory and nothing above it, only the front controller is permitted to execute PHP, and PostgreSQL listens on loopback only. A paired step by step deployment guide covers first sign in, opening the demo map, registering your own OGC sources, your own domain and certificate, mail delivery and backups, and 24/7 cloudimg support is behind it.