HELP ! ESRI-Coverages don't work !

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:08:25 -0600, Christian Schigl
<sis at adv.magwien.gv.at> wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I try to access ESRI-Coverages (on a mounted nfs-Volume) under umn-mapserv
> 4.2.5.
>
> I can access them via the ogr-tool "ogrinfo":
>
> ogrinfo /data/gisdat/grenze/bez
> Had to open data source read-only.
> INFO: Open of `/data/gisdat/grenze/bez'
> using driver `AVCBin' successful.
> 1: ARC (Line String)
> 2: CNT (Point)
> 3: LAB (Point)
> 4: PAL (Polygon)
>
> But Mapserver keeps telling me that " msOGRFileOpen(): OGR error. Open
> failed for OGR connection `/data/gisdat/grenze/bez'. File not found or
> unsupported format. "

Christian,

Any chance this is a permissions problem? Does your
web user (apache, nobody, etc) have read access to the
dataset, and all intervening directories?  Try moving the dataset
temporariliy into/under the same directory as the map and see if
that works better.

Best regards,
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