[mapserver-users] Web application error. Malformed template name

Tue Aug 16 15:32:16 EDT 2011

I found the problem - I was using a bigint value for the unique key in the layer definition and it was not a primary key or have any unique constraint on it.  I brought in a "gid" (int4) from the joined table with geometry that was in the temp view and used that as the unique value in the map layer definition and it works perfectly.  I found this out by attempting to access the PostGIS view through Quantum GIS.  I am still kind of confused why this is, but it works.
David - Thanks for the help!
Dara
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dara Olson 
  To: Fawcett, David (MPCA) ; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Web application error. Malformed template name

  An absolute path did not help.  I increased MapServer Debug to 5 and I still don't get any more information.  Is there a way to track down where exactly the problem is happening?  I thought by creating the view to remove the multiple records by waterbody this would remove this error (so it wouldn't get more than one result from the URL request), but no such luck. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
  Dara

  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Fawcett, David (MPCA) 
    To: Dara Olson ; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
    Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:55 AM
    Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Web application error. Malformed template name

    Dara, 

    I am pretty sure that relative paths work for templates, but for testing purposes, try using the absolute path to the template.

    David.

    From: Dara Olson [mailto:dolson at glifwc.org] 
    Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:03 AM
    To: Fawcett, David (MPCA); mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
    Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Web application error. Malformed template name

    It is below.  I am running a web mapping site with GeoMoose(2.0) and MapServer(5.2.1), but I can't seem to find a way to figure out what I am doing wrong or why I am ending up with the error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Miigwech!

    Dara

    MAP
    SIZE 1920 1920
    MAXSIZE 10000
    EXTENT -20614760.777156 1751325.1919492 -1927436.1053437 7915207.1517617
    UNITS meters
    SYMBOLSET "..\symbols\glifwc_symbol.sym"
    FONTSET "..\fonts\fonts.list"
    CONFIG  "MS_ERRORFILE" "d:/Logs/Mapserver/MapServerDEVELSITE.log"

    OUTPUTFORMAT
     NAME 'agg/png'
     DRIVER AGG/PNG
     IMAGEMODE RGBA
     FORMATOPTION "TRANSPARENT=TRUE"
    END

    IMAGETYPE AGG/PNG
    TRANSPARENT ON
    IMAGECOLOR -1 -1 -1

    DEBUG 3

    ############################### ---- LEGEND ---- ###############################

     LEGEND
       STATUS on
       TRANSPARENT on
     END

    ############################### ---- Map projection ---- ###############################

     PROJECTION
      "init=epsg:900913"
     END

    ############################### ---- LAYERS ---- ###############################

    LAYER #  MN Ogaa Harvest LBS
        NAME "mn_ogaa_harvest_lbs"
        TYPE POLYGON
        CONNECTIONTYPE postgis
        CONNECTION "host=zzzzzzz user=zzzzzz password=zzzzzz dbname=zzzzzz"
        PROCESSING "CLOSE_CONNECTION=DEFER"   

        DATA "the_geom900913 from inland.mn_ogaa_harvest_lbs_spatial using unique new_id using srid=900913"
        PROJECTION
            "init=epsg:900913"
        END
        METADATA
            "wms_title" "MN Ogaa Harvest Lakes"
        END
        CLASS
            NAME "MN Ogaa Harvest Lakes" 
            STYLE
                SYMBOL 0 
                SIZE 6 
                OUTLINECOLOR -1 -1 -1
                COLOR 182 177 145
            END
            TEMPLATE "../identify/ogaa_harvest/mn_ogaa_harvest_lbs_identify.html"
        END
    END # MN Ogaa Harvest LBS

    END #map file

    My HTML identify template used to display results is, 

    <!-- MapServer Template-->
    <tbody>
    <tr>
    <th colspan="2">MN Ogaa Harvest in Pounds</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td align="left">Lake:</td>
    <td>[lake]</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td align="left">2011 Harvest:</td>
    <td>[_2011_harvest]</td>
    </tr>
    ...

    </tbody>
    <tr><td colspan="2"><hr></td></tr>

      ----- Original Message ----- 

      From: Fawcett, David (MPCA) 

      To: Dara Olson ; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 

      Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:42 AM

      Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] Web application error. Malformed template name

      Dara, 

      Can you share the part of your mapfile that describes this layer?  

      David.

      From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Dara Olson
      Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:01 AM
      To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
      Subject: [mapserver-users] Web application error. Malformed template name

      Good morning. I am having some problems identifying a layer through MapServer and I seem to be stuck.  

      I have a flat table of harvest by waterbody by year by individual in PostgreSQL/PostGIS. I created a "temporary view" of the sum harvested by waterbody by year and joined in geometry which I then made into a crosstab so that each lake would be listed and columns across with harvest by year.  It draws successfully in my web mapping application (and view looks fine in postgres), but when I try to use the Identify feature on the website (Mapserver GET URL request) I get the following error in MapServer, 

      [Fri Aug 12 09:57:33 2011].687000 msReturnPage(): Web application error. Malformed template name ().
      [Fri Aug 12 09:57:33 2011].703000 msQueryByPoint(): Search returned no results. No matching record(s) found.

      Before doing the crosstab I was getting this error, but I assumed that it didn't like the multiple records linked to the same geometry and that's why I did the crosstab.  But still nothing works.

      Does anyone have any idea of where to begin to debug?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks!

      Dara Olson, GLIFWC
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