[Tilecache] Premature end of script headers problem

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Wed Oct 29 19:54:27 EDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:50:14PM -0700, Kerry McConnell wrote:
> I've run into what seems like an odd problem.  I didn't have any trouble
> installing tilecache or running the tilecache_seed.py script.  However,
> when recently running it - certain tiles and zoom levels fail with a 500
> internal server error.  The only error I get in the Apache error logs is
> 'Premature end of script headers: wms.exe'.

This is typically code for "You crashed mapserver". Pull the URL from
the log, and try to open the URL that TileCache was trying to open, and
see if you get the same error message. If you do, then you'll need to
take the problem to the MapServer list and try to debug it there.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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