[Mapserver-users] Symbolic link

[Eric Bridger]

If you are using MMS < 4.0 and SHAPEPATH in you map file, it could be a
problem with the chdir() that mapserver does when querying a layer.
Is the new drive Web accessible.  We had a similiar problem. Fixed by
not using SHAPEPATH, just full paths in the DATA directives.

Eric


On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 17:50, Steve Lime wrote:
> I've not run into that one. We use sym links all over the place and have
> had no trouble. Are
> you sure the layers are queryable (i.e. there is a template)?
> 
> Steve
> 
> >>> Stefan Schwarzer <stefan.schwarzer at grid.unep.ch> 06/24/03 09:13AM
> >>>
> 
> Hmm, strange things happening here. We are working on a Linux machine
> and 
> had lately to add another hard disk. As our MMS application was running
> 
> nicely with a few selected data sets on the old disk, we now just
> created a 
> new data folder on the new disk, put up a symbolic link directing from
> the 
> old data folder to the new one, and filling that one up with our data
> sets. 
> Now, weird thing: The application is still running smoothly, loading
> all 
> files correctly; but when I try to make a query on the shapefiles, I
> get 
> zero results. It seems as if MMS can't access the shapefiles via the 
> symbolic link for querying.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stefan
> 
> 
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