[Featureserver] Errors settings up feature server?

[Rob Dunfey]

Thanks for the clarification Christopher.

I've moved back to the cgi-bin, and renamed the featureserver root folder to
something a little shorter (fs), typing the following...

http://www.gisconsultancy.com/cgi-bin/fs/featureserver.cgi?/scribble/all.atom

I don't get an empty atom feed but the following message is printed to
screen...

{"Layers": [{"url":
"http:\/\/www.gisconsultancy.com\/cgi-bin\/fs\/featureserver.cgi\/scribble",
"name": "scribble"}]}

and the scribble file is created - progress.  Does anyone know what the
above line indicates?

Thanks.

Rob


On 06/02/2008, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:13:02PM +0000, Rob Dunfey wrote:
> > Hi Dane,
> >
> > I made the change you suggested but I still get the same errors.
> >
> > I'm a little concerned that I'm being really daft, because I don't have
> > python on my web host,
>
> You do have Python on your web host: the first error message you pasted
> was a Python traceback. At that point, the only problem you had was a
> missing 'o' in your URL: If you can get back to that state, and just add
> an 'o' into 'atm' to make it 'atom', You would have a working
> FeatureServer install.
>
> > but I see lots of .py files in the feature server
> > install.   But my understanding is that featureserver can use python or
> > cgi?
>
> CGI is 'common gateway interface' -- it's not a programming language,
> it's a 'protocol' (sort of) by which web servers can execute external
> scripts.
>
> > I assume that if python isn't installed, it falls back on whatever
> > language is used by the web host to execute cgi programs?
>
> CGI programs are executed by the webserver, using the interpreter
> defined by the CGI. In this case, that's Python: and (as I pointed out
> above) your web host does have Python, or you wouldn't have gotten this
> far.
>
> > I will have another look after work and see if I can make any progress.
>
> You were really close. Unfortunately, you've moved further away due to
> poor documentation; I apologize for that. If you move your featureserver
> directory back inside cgi-bin, and change your URL, you should have the
> first step working. (It's not all gravy from there, but it's a step
> forward, at least.)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
>
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