[Mapserver-users] msOpenSHPFile(): Unable to access file

[Vincent Schut]

Maybe a bit too simple, but did you check whether the shapefile is not 
corrupt? E.g. load it into arcview or run ogrinfo (comes with GDAL) on your 
shapefile?

Regards,
Vincent Schut.

On Sunday 30 March 2003 12:38, Inna Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> mapserv is unable to access the data file. But I definitely set all paths
> correctly.
> The mapfile is the one from the tutorial, starting this way:
> ---
> NAME S1EX2
> EXTENT -97.238976 41.619778 -82.122902 49.38562
> SIZE 400 300
> SHAPEPATH "/var/www/html/karte/data"
> LAYER # States
>   NAME "states"
>   DATA states_ugl
>   STATUS DEFAULT
> ...
> ---
>
> the shapepath is set correctly. I downloaded the states_ugl from
> http://terrasip.gis.umn.edu/terrasipProjects/tutorial35/data/states_ugl.shp
> I call mapserv directly by entering the url
> http://www.inna.de/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/var/www/html/karte/karte.map&mode=m
>ap Then I get: "msOpenSHPFile(): Unable to access file. (states_ugl) " I
> also tried it with relative paths, with ending slash, with adding .shp to
> states_ugl I also checked the file permission of states_ugl.
> Nothing helped.
>
> I use Redhat Linux 7.3
>
> Instead, the itasca demo does work!
>
> Does anyone has any idea ???
>
> Greetings,
>
> Inna
>
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