[Mapserver-users] Where are legend, reference and .qy images stored? MORE INFO

[Steve Lime]

Remember that ../.. is relative to where the CGI program lives, not
where the web page
or map file lives. In 3.7 there is no more crazy chdir() going on.

Steve

Stephen Lime
Data & Applications Manager

Minnesota DNR
500 Lafayette Road
St. Paul, MN 55155
651-297-2937

>>> "Paul Peterson" <pwpeterson at iesc.net> 04/07/03 11:01AM >>>
Gerry, et al...

I did some more testing.  I discovered to get the ref, leg and *.qy
files
stored the IMAGEPATH directory MUST be assigned the ownership and group
of
the web server.  In my case when I changed both of these to 'apache'
the
images were generated and stored, however, again they are showing up
in
/var/tmp!!!!  They never get displayed along with the map image because
the
process tries to get them from /var/www/html/tmp as it should.

My .map file is in /var/www/html/tutorial/s3/
Expected tmp directory /var/www/html/tmp
The IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL are:
IMAGEPATH "../../tmp/"
IMAGEURL "/tmp/"

Apache serves html from /var/www/html

Paul Peterson



====================================================================
Gerry's response:

May be a 3.7 "feature"... I've not seen image evolution here, either.

gerry

Paul Peterson wrote:
> Rich, Thank you for your response
>
> I should have been more specific...
>
> My .map file is in /var/www/html/tutorial/s3/
> The IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL are:
> IMAGEPATH "../../tmp/"
> IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>
> Apache server html from /var/www/html
>
> I give the tmp directory +777 permission which is drwxrwxrwx.
>
> All the images should be placed in /var/www/html/tmp, however, only
the
map
> image is.  I found the others (ref, leg and .qy) in /var/tmp!
>
> I add a tmp directory (/var/www/html/tutorial/s3/tmp) and made these
changes
> to IMAGEPATH and IMAGURL:
> IMAGEPATH "tmp/"
> IMAGEURL "/tutorial35/s3/tmp/"
>
> Again, the only image that shows up there is the map image and I
can't
find
> the others anywhere.
>
> Is this a bug with 3.7?
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> ================================================
> Rich's response:
>
> The images for the map, reference map, legend, and query files will
all be
> saved to the IMAGEPATH directory, which is relative to the .map file.
So
in
> your case it looks like your map file is in /var/www/html/tutorial35
and
> ../../tmp/ would put you at /var/tmp/. Is your webserver aliasing
/tmp to
> /var/tmp/? Check the time stamps on the files in /var/www/html/tmp.
Try
> seleting everything in both /var/tmp/ and  /var/www/html/tmp and then
hit
> mapserver and see where the images files appear, because what you
describe
> below does not quite make sense.
>
> Rich
>
> At 06:02 PM 4/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>>Hello all.
>>
>>I wrote yesterday regarding a problem with my legends and reference
images
>>not showing up.  Does MapServer (3.7) store all generated images in
the
the
>>same tmp directory.  I am testing out the Tutorial35 demo app and it
is
>>located at /var/www/html/tutorial35.  I have a tmp directory
>>/var/www/html/tmp where only the map png files are showing up.  I
was
>
> trying
>
>>out the cashed query and discovered that the legend, reference and
*.qy
>>files where being stored in /var/tmp.
>>
>>Where in the map file does the directory for the legend, reference
and .qy
>>files get set?  If MapServer is smart enough to store these files
there
why
>>isn't it smart enough to download them from there as well?
>>
>>A snippet of the map file follows:
>>
>>NAME S3EX4
>>EXTENT -97.5 41.619778 -82.122902 49.38562
>>SIZE 400 300
>>SHAPEPATH "../data"
>>FONTSET "../fonts/fonts.list"
>>SYMBOLSET "../symbols/symbols35.sym"
>>
>>WEB
>>  HEADER header.html
>>  TEMPLATE s3ex4.html
>>  FOOTER footer.html
>>  IMAGEPATH "../../tmp/"
>>  IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
>>  LOG /var/www/html/mapserver.log
>>END
>>
>>Again the IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL as defined above work for the map
png,
but
>>not the legend, reference ro .qy files.
>>
>>Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>>
>>Paul Peterson
>>
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>
>
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