[Mapserver-users] configuration on chroot'ed system

[Bill Wheaton]

Daniel:

I forwarded this suggestion to the ISP and it solved the problem.  
Many, many thanks!

Bill

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> This looks like the symptoms of a problem we used to have when 
> MapServer's broken 'make install' was used.  The 'make install' target 
> has been replaced in the Makefile in the latest 3.6.x and 4.0 > versions.
>
> Ask the ISP to look for an old /usr/local/lib/libmap.a and delete it, 
> then link php_mapscript.so again and it should link with the correct 
> libmap.a, the one that he just compiled.
>
> Daniel
>
> Bill Wheaton wrote:
>
>> Folks--
>> I'm trying to get a phpmapscript/postgis setup going at my ISP 
>> (pghoster). Things are basically working, except that the sys admin 
>> has upgraded the mapserv executable to 3.6.6, but it is not being 
>> recognized by phpinfo() or my scripts.
>> I run phpinfo() (after loading php_mapscript.so) and get the 
>> following:
>> MapServer version 3.6.3 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP 
>> SUPPORTS=TTF INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS 
>> INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>> When the sys admin at the ISP runs ./mapserv -v, he gets:
>> [root at secure mapserver-3.6.6]# cd 
>> /home/virtual/mysite.org/var/www/cgi-bin/
>> [root at secure cgi-bin]# ./mapserv -v
>> MapServer version 3.6.6 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP 
>> SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 
>> INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>> Note that ./mapserv -v reports version 3.6.6 (which is what I want), 
>> while phpinfo reports version 3.6.3. Since this is a chroot'ed 
>> system, I can't run ./mapserv myself from the command line myself.
>> Additional output from phpinfo() shows:
>> _SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] /home/virtual/site170/fst/var/www/html
>> _SERVER["SITE_CGIROOT"] /home/virtual/site170/fst/var/www/cgi-bin
>> My site's main document root (index.php and the rest of my php code) 
>> is in /home/virtual/site170/fst/var/www/html. But again, since it's 
>> chroot'ed, I get to it from:
>> /home/myname/mainwebsite_html/index.php (etc.)
>> and the mapserv cgi is in:
>> /home/myname/mainwebiste_cgi/ (and is named mapserv)
>> The mapserv file is there and shows the date at which the sys admin 
>> re-built it to ver 3.6.6.
>> Can anyone provide any insights into troubleshooting this problem? 
>> Again, to summarize:
>> My scripts are in the right place and mapserv is found and works, but 
>> it's not the right version...phpinfo() shows an older version of 
>> mapserv, while running ./mapserv -v shows a newer version...What are 
>> the places where an incorrect location for mapserv could be 
>> referenced? Thanks in advance for any advice.
>> Bill
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