[mapserver-users] Path for errorfile

[Ben Madin]

G'day Daniel,

On 09/01/2009, at 10:47 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> You are correct that relative paths are not supported for  
> MS_ERRORFILE. You could file a ticket about this, and if/when time  
> permits we'll look at the implications of supporting relative paths  
> in all possible scenarios and see if this could safely be added.  
> i.e. it may be possible to get predictable results with a relative  
> path only when setting MS_ERRORFILE in the mapfile but not when  
> setting it via an environment variable, we'll have to see.

Thanks for the response, I have submitted it as a low priority  
enhancement (#2853), maybe just updating the documentation to clarify  
this point is enough for now. (Because I'm building on Mac OSX and  
deploying on FreeBSD, I'm a shameless user of relative references!)

cheers

Ben



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