[mapserver-users] What does this error message mean?

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Joe,

Thanks for your response. I actually just created the dataset and 
tileindex and added it to an existing mapfile which then broke.

Well it seems that there is a minor bug in mapserver or at least an 
undocumented limitation, or more likely a failure on my part to 
understand.

It seems that in the mapfile a a tileindex must be specified relative 
to the SHAPEPATH item and may not be specified as an absolute path. 
And further more all TILEINDEX LOCATION values must be relative to 
the location of the TILEINDEX location.

I might be wrong on this but looking at the source code and making 
the changes above seemed to get rid of the problem.

-Steve W.

On 25 Sep 2002 at 8:39, Joe Bussell wrote:

> One guess, perhaps the tile index file is stale.  Have you rebuilt any
> shapefile data trees lately?
> 
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:40:36AM -0400, woodbri at swoodbridge.com
> wrote: > What does this error message mean? and How do i get rid of
> it? > > -Steve > > Warning: MapServer Error in msTiledSHPOpenFile():
> Unable to open a > single tile to use as a template. in >
> /home/httpd/html/maplab-2.0rc3/htdocs/common/wrapper/drawmap.php on >
> line 292 > 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Joe Bussell
> On Time Systems
> www.TrafficDodger.com
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