[Mapserver-users] PostGIS and mapserver

[Swaminathan, Gayathri]

Hi:
I have been tring to solve this problem and have not been to identify the
reasons yet...

Here's is what I have, 

My Postgres Database server is in my local domain and has postgresql
installed in the /usr/share/pgsql/data ( A directory) I had created...
instead of the /var/lib/pgsql/data

All the configuration files live here (pg_hba.conf, postgresql.conf...)

I have enable tcpip_sockets -true and set pg_hba.conf to allow my clients
elsewhere (not in my domain) to access the DB server....

I am able to connect to my linux server through ODBC...do data
transfer....etc.,

but, mapserver .map file will not be successful in seeing the Postgres
server....

The postgis connection is given as,

CONNECTION "user=geopostgres password=***** dbname=ACCO_Data host=myserver
port=5432"

It returns an error message,

"msPOSTGISLayerOpen(): Query error. Error parsing POSTGIS connection
information. "

Any explanation to this behavior...Appreciate any help.
thanks,
Gayathri