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<div class="elementToProof">I have a situation where I have .map files in two different directories, one called stage and one called prod. If there were a .map in each directory called foo.map, I would like to be able to reference it by making my query parameter
map=/foo.map and setting the directory in configuration, rather than being forced to use map=/stage/foo.map or map=/prod/foo.map as the case may be. Is this possible with some mapserver config? I found this StackExchange article
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There is no concept of a data root, for a mapserver installation, or for a mapserver service. You can use local references within any map file to include other map files</div>
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Which shows how you could use ScriptAlias in the Apache config to create an alias for each .map file, but we have over a thousand of them. </div>
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