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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everbody,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I just spend a couple of hours trying to set up Mapserver 8.0 on Windows. To do that, I downloaded the latest stable release from GisInternals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am using Apache and FastCGI as webserver.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Everything went smoothly until I tried to make Mapserver load the new needed configuration file. It was just always claiming that it couln’t load this file (“</span><span lang="EN-US">msLoadConfig(): Unable to access
file.</span><span lang="EN-US">”), but I had set “SetEnv MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE” in my Apache configuration. Even setting MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE in a global system variable did not solve the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">After quite a while, I found this issue on Mapserver’s issue tracker:
<a href="https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/6411">https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/6411</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This had not a lot to do with my issue, but I discovered the existence of FcgidInitialEnv. Setting this variable (FcgidInitialEnv MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE "C:/whereever/mapserver.conf") solved the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So, is it mandatory to set FcgidInitialEnv when using Mapserver with FastCGI? If yes, wouldn’t it be good to add something to the documentation (<a href="https://mapserver.org/mapfile/config.html">https://mapserver.org/mapfile/config.html</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Moreover, I spied in the ms4w 5 package. It seemed to me that they were using FastCGI as well, but I could not find anything regarding FcgidInitialEnv, thus my question…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks a lot to anyone who would have some information regarding that.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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