500 Internal Server Errors

[Luis Treviño]

Roland,

Try this on your DATA stmt:

DATA "geometry from background as foo using unique <gid> using srid=<your
srid>"
just replace the <gid> name with your oid column and put the number of the
srid you're using.
Hope this helps.

Regards,
Luis



2006/7/13, Roland Martin <roland.w.martin at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I don't think that's the problem, but here are some
> excerpts nonetheless:
>
>
>
>   LAYER                     # this one works
>     NAME "Contours"
>     GROUP "Height"
>     STATUS OFF
>     CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
>     CONNECTION "dbname=lba user=postgres password=postgres"
>     DATA "geom from height_data"
>     TYPE LINE
>     LABELITEM "height"
>     CLASS
>       EXPRESSION ('[layer_name]' = 'C900LX000')
>       COLOR 204 51 0
>       LABEL
>         FONT sans
>         SIZE small
>         COLOR 100 100 100
>         OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 255
>         POSITION auto
>         ANTIALIAS false
>       END
>     END
>   END
>
>   LAYER                           # this one doesn't
>     NAME "Background Drawing"
>     GROUP "CAD Drawings"
>     STATUS OFF
>     CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
>     CONNECTION "dbname=lba user=postgres password=postgres"
>     DATA "geometry from background"
>     TYPE LINE
>     CLASS
>       COLOR 51 102 0
>     END
>   END
>
> The geometry column names are different because I generated the tables
> from 2 different sources - but that shouldn't make any difference...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roland.
>
>
>
>
> On 13/07/06, Luis Treviño <ltrevinoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Roland:
> >
> > Could be the "DATA" sql statement on your map file. It would be easier
> > if you can show part of your map file that involves the postgis layer.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Luis
> >
> >
> > 2006/7/12, Roland Martin <roland.w.martin at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > OK, this is probably yet another stupid query to which I should know
> > > the answer... however, I'm on a roll here.
> > >
> > > I've got an application which is intermittently (i.e. most of the
> > > time, but not always) throwing a 500 Internal Server Error. The application
> > > is almost a direct clone of another which does not exhibit the same error.
> > >
> > > I've spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out why this might
> > > be, and as far as I can tell, it's something to do with the PostGIS database
> > > which holds most of the data. If I remove all the PostGIS layers, it seems
> > > to work fine (although interestingly doesn't work if they're all in the map
> > > file but turned off - does MapScript try to load the layers regardless?)
> > >
> > > The database contains converted CAD (DWG) data with typically stupid
> > > contents (meaningless fields, escape characters, etc). I wondered if it
> > > might be to do with the sizes of the tables (>30 000 records in each), but
> > > dissolving them doesn't seem to have made much difference. At the moment I'm
> > > leaning towards thinking it may be because of the aforementioned escape
> > > characters (looking down the tables, a number just contain the entry " which
> > > might upset things; others start with an asterisk). However, some of the
> > > tables causing the issue don't contain anything nearly as nasty.
> > >
> > > The error is being thrown on loading the map; approximately 80-90% of
> > > the time.
> > >
> > > Also of interest may be the following gunk from the error logs:
> > > [Wed Jul 12 16:29:11 2006] [error] [client x] Premature end of script
> > > headers: php-cgi.exe, referer: http://x/lbia_dev/
> > > [Wed Jul 12 16:51:08 2006] [error] [client x] Premature end of script
> > > headers: php-cgi.exe, referer: http://x/lbia_dev/
> > > (etc)
> > >
> > > Anyone have any thoughts on this?
> > >
> > > Ta,
> > > Roland.
> > >
> > >
> > > MS4W 2.0
> > > MapServer 4.8.3
> > > Chameleon for MS4W 2.4
> > > PgSQL 8.1
> > > etc 1.0
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Please note my new email address. Use other addresses at your peril.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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