[Mapserver-users] PHP can't find map file

[Daniel Morissette]

Abram Gillespie wrote:
> I can't seem to get PHP to find the example europe.map file.  I've tried 
> relative and absolute paths, tried giving "others" rwx permissions, 
> etc.  This is the error I get:
> 
> 
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: msLoadSymbolSet(): (../symbols/symbols.sym) 
> in /Users/abe/Sites/ms_test/example2.php on line 14
> 
> Warning: Failed to open map file /Users/abe/Sites/ms_test/europe.map in 
> /Users/abe/Sites/ms_test/example2.php on line 14
> 

MapScript does find the mapfile.  The error is that it cannot find 
"../symbols/symbols.sym" which is referenced in the mapfile. When you 
copy a mapfile you need to make sure that you copy the symbolset and 
fontset with it, or update the paths accordingly inside the mapfile.

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