[mapguide-users] 1.2 RC1 Bugs and "Newbie" Impressions

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Eric,
     Hi, I'm also new to this project using 1.1.0. I'm not a developer and
have no comment on your observations of 1.2RC1 so please pardon this thread
interruption. 

I have been trying to get a MapGuide 1.1.0 installation up and running for
the past (5) days with little success. I have been through both the Apache
and Tomcat configuration scripts rather extensively and have verified that
Apache can ececute PHP and Apache JSP's. I however have NEVER actually
observed MapGuide serving ANY GIS maps through the installed examples and
MapGuide Studio does not appear to be able to recognize any served GIS data
either. WebGuide Studio gives the following Error as described below: 

Line: 285 
Char: 13 
Error: 'this.resources[...].getView()' is null or not an object 

I have not even been able to get ANY of the JSP examples to work!!! 

Compiling a small Java applet such as "HelloWorld" and placing the .class
file in the 
C:\Program
Files\MapGuideOpenSource\WebServerExtensions\Tomcat\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes 
directory however works just fine, so Apache is apparently configured
correctly. I also know that PHP is operational to the extent that the Site
Administration scripts with root at
"http://localhost:8008/mapguide/mapadmin/login.php" are executable.

Question? Have you ever observed MapGuide serving any GIS maps? If so,
perhaps you would be so kind as to point me in the right direction regarding
proper configuration of the tool, as you appear to have had more luck than
I.

Regards, 
  Brendan 




Eric Bickle wrote:
> 
> I'm a relatively new user to MapGuide, and I thought I'd share my
> impressions upgrading to v1.2 RC1. I realize some of my thinking might be
> flawed, but perhaps it might shed some insight into what a new user will
> experience using the software.
> 
>  
> 
> Core Bugs / Issues:
> 
>  
> 
> * Installing 1.2 RC1 from 1.1. The 1.2 installer couldn't perform an
> upgrade
> - instead, it asked me to uninstall the previous version. I did so, then
> installed 1.2. All of my 1.1 settings were lost, including my custom
> repository paths pointing to our "data" volume.
> 
>  
> 
> * Installing the product always defaults to the "admin" password. This is
> very bad from a security standpoint (for example, Microsoft had been
> blasted
> for this in SQL Server about 8+ years ago). The installer should prompt
> the
> user for an administrator password during installation (and be sure not to
> log it in the install log). This is an absolute must, IMHO. Initial
> installations of *any* product should not be insecure.
> 
>  
> 
> * There needs to be a way to reconfigure the "data directories" during
> installation. The majority of production server installations separate the
> "OS" volume from the "data" volume.
> 
>  
> 
> * I'm not sure if this has been resolved, but put me down for a vote in
> the
> "SHP file performance is absolutely critical" camp. I know that there were
> some recent problems as the # of files increased.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Web Studio Bugs:
> 
>  
> 
> * All of the following bugs were seen in Firefox 2.0.0.4
> 
>  
> 
> * Installing the IIS web service extensions did not correctly add
> "index.html" to the default document list. As a result, going to
> http://localhost/mapguide/mapstudio gave a 404.
> 
>  
> 
> * Login screen defaults to the "admin" password. This promotes insecure
> implementations. 
> 
>  
> 
> * Clicking "reference unmanaged data" on the initial page brings up a 404.
> 
>  
> 
> * Clicking Tools->Map Agent brings up a "cannot connect to server". It
> defaults to 127.0.0.1:8001 rather than the server I specified in the
> connect
> window. Is this correct?
> 
>  
> 
> * After getting the "cannot connect to server" error, I clicked X twice to
> close the two open documents. Site explorer then showed an animation as
> though it was working - however, it clearly was not doing anything.
> 
>  
> 
> * I get a popup message saying "ERROR" quite a bit, even though I'm not
> doing anything at the time.
> 
> 
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