[Geomoose-users] Installing Geomoose; What next?

[Brian Fischer]

Did you validate your XML to ensure there are no syntax issues with the mapbook?  You can do this by just copying the entire mapbook xml into this web page to validate it.  http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp

Brian Fischer, CFM
Principal | GIS Project Manager
Houston Engineering, Inc.
O 763.493.4522 | D 763.493.6664 | M 763.229.2734

From: geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Moules
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:13 AM
To: geomoose-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] Installing Geomoose; What next?

HI List,
I'm still not making any headway. I've now read/glanced over all of the documentation here: http://www.geomoose.org/docs/index.html - but am none the wiser.
Everything is still set to the defaults, though I have started playing with the "paths" in local_settings.ini.

Unfortunately the documentation doesn't make it clear where these relative paths are relative to, so I can't be sure if they're correct or not.

My paths:
[paths]
root=/ms4w/apps/geomoose2/maps/
mapserver_url=/GeoMoose_cgi/mapserv.exe
temp=/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/

Documentation:
root - root for the map (only configured through local_settings.ini)
temp - web accessible location of the temp files relative to the root of the domain (only configured through local_settings.ini)

While the "temp" one specifies "root of the domain", is that the web domain (i.e., "localhost"), in which case shouldn't it be called "temp_url" like the "mapserver_url" variable is? I have a virtual directory for ms_tmp set up, but changing this to point at that doesn't work either.

Any thoughts? How do I debug what the actual problem is? Are there error logs somewhere?
Thanks,
Jonathan


On 30 July 2012 13:12, Jonathan Moules <jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk<mailto:jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk>> wrote:
Hi,
I've managed to (eventually) get GeoMoose 2.6 & MapServer-4-Windows working with IIS7. But now when I try and access GeoMoose I get the following:


"Could not load a mapbook. If you are the system administrator, you should look into this, if you are not the system administrator you should tell them about this. Suggestions:
The mapbook may not be returning XML.
The mapbook may be returning malformed XML.
PHP may not be responding."

PHP is running (a simple php script calling phpinfo(); in the GeoMoose directory shows that).

Unfortunately at this point the documentation seems to have a gap. I can find massive amounts of detailed information about what to put in my mapbooks, what different config settings etc do, but there seems to be a lack of over-arching documentation. It doesn't tell me clearly where the mapbooks are, what settings I need to tweak to point them at the mapbooks, where the config settings.ini file is. Parts of this information seem to be scattered around (I eventually managed to find http://geomoose.org/docs/settings.html  (I'd suggest this be pointed to from "Next steps" here - http://www.geomoose.org/docs/install_ms4w.html )).

Shouldn't the it be loading the demo mapbook? What do I need to change next? settings.ini is pointing to "mapbook.xml" and there is one of them in the conf directory too.

Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks,
Jonathan



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