[Mapserver-users] map file permission denied

[Nick Petersen-Bergeron]

Well, apparently both image and points are some kind of reserved words that 
you shouldn't use for layer names.  I changed both of them, and now the map 
opens fine.  Thanks for the help.

Nick


At 04:53 PM 10/27/2003 -0500, Ed McNierney wrote:
>Nick -
>
>And what output does this command produce?
>
>         ls -l /home/httpd/html/map/yield.map
>
>         - Ed
>
>
>Ed McNierney
>President and Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com
>ed at topozone.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Petersen-Bergeron [mailto:bergeron at zedxinc.com]
>Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:21 PM
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: [Mapserver-users] map file permission denied
>
>I'm trying to open a basic mapfile, and I'm continually getting a
>mapfile
>permission denied error.  The permissions on the mapfile are set to
>777.  Here is the mapfile:
>
>#
># Start of map file
>#
>NAME YIELD
>STATUS ON
>SIZE 150 150
>EXTENT -91.1644 34.6098 -91.1306 34.6399
>UNITS DD
>SHAPEPATH "./"
>IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
>
>##
>## Start of web interface definition
>##
>WEB
>    IMAGEPATH "/home/httpd/html/dy_images/"
>    IMAGEURL "/dy_images/"
>END
>
>SYMBOL
>    NAME "circle"
>    TYPE ellipse
>    FILLED true
>    POINTS
>      1 1
>    END
>END
>
>LAYER
>          NAME image
>          TYPE raster
>          DATA ""
>          STATUS ON
>          TEMPLATE void
>          CLASS
>                  NAME "img"
>          END
>END
>
>
>
>#
>#LAYER
>#       NAME points
>#       TYPE point
>#       DATA ""
>#       STATUS ON
>#       TEMPLATE void
>#       CLASS
>#               NAME "dots"
>#               SIZE 5
>#               COLOR 255 0 0
>#               SYMBOL 'circle'
>#       END
>#END
>
>END # Map File
>
>
>My map object declaration line is simple, just this:
>my $map = new mapObj('/home/httpd/html/map/yield.map') or die("Unable to
>
>open mapfile. $!");
>
>This is the error: Unable to open mapfile. Permission denied
>
>Any ideas?
>
>BTW, thanks to those of you who helped with my dynamic class creation
>problem.  The error turned out to be a silly mistake regarding a
>double-quote that should have been a single-quote.
>
>Nick Petersen-Bergeron
>Developer
>
>ZedX Inc.
>369 Rolling Ridge Drive
>Bellefonte, PA. 16823
>
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