Issue with 5.0 beta 5 (MS4W 2.2.6)

[Daniel Morissette]

John Cole wrote:
> I'm using the freshly minted MS4W 2.2.6, which I believe has MS5 Beta 5 and
> have the following issue.
> 
> Maps returning are being drawn very quickly, but the browser (FF2 or IE7)
> are holding the connections open for 5+ seconds on each map request.  This
> quickly adds up when tiling from MS.
> 
> Looking at a mode=browse page, the following error is appearing when the
> connection is finally released:
> 
> Error in my_thread_global_end(): 1 threads didn't exit
> 

It seems that PHP 5.2.2 and 5.2.3 have a broken libmysql.dll, see:
http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1730

... and I also read elsewhere that using the libmysql.dll from MS4W 
2.2.3 could solve the issue.


> When debugging is on, I'm not getting any timing or layer stats anymore
> either.
> 

This may be related to RFC-28 changes in 5.0. The short answer is that 
with 5.0 you need to set in your mapfile:
   CONFIG MS_ERRORFILE "stderr"
... and for the full story see 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/development/rfc/ms-rfc-28

Daniel
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