[Mapserver-users] PostGIS questions - help with mapserver

[David Blasby]

Zamil Murji wrote:
> I tried your data string. It comes back really fast but with the exact same result, the following error message:
> msDrawMap(): Image handling error. Failed to draw layer named 'oilwells'. 
> 
> I downloaded this from the mapserver website. Here is some interesting stuff:
> I'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.3 and PostGIS 0.7.5
> Both are fairly new, do you think there is a problem with this? If so what versions are supported?
> 
> mapserv -v results in the following:
> MapServer version 4.0-beta1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT
> =PDF OUTPUT=SWF SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS
> _CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=
> OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE


I think this is probably a problem with the mapserver core - does anyone 
here know what the error message:

msDrawMap(): Image handling error. Failed to draw layer named 'oilwells'.

means?

Zamil - have your tried this with mapserver 3.6.6 (also available in the 
cvs archive)?

dave