[Tilecache] Tilecache error

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Tue Jan 15 07:02:45 EST 2008


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:27:49AM -0800, R. Ortner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I still trying to run tilecache on my slackware linux.
> 
> I´ve installed python (testet with a hello world, it´s running correct),
> I´ve made the following apache httpd.conf entry:
> 
> # MetaCarta's TileCache
> ScriptAlias /tilecache/ "/var/www/tilecache/"
> <Directory "/var/www/tilecache/">
>     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py
>     Options +ExecCGI
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> and installed tilecache from within the /var/www/tilecache dir. (still
> standard configuration with the exception of a changed temp directory!)
> 
> 
> When I try to test the tilecache installation with:
> http://172.21.18.45/tilecache/tilecache.cgi?LAYERS=basic&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&SRS=EPSG:4326&BBOX=-180,-90,0,90&WIDTH=256&HEIGHT=256
> 
> the following message appear after a oviously browser timeoute:

This is not a TileCache error. This indicates that you can not connect
from your server to the labs.metacarta.com server via HTTP within
Apache. Do you have SELinux installed? Any other security meausres that
might block outbound traffic on port 80 by the apache user?

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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