[Mapserver-users] php/mapscript error

[Murat Isik]

Thank you,

Do you remember which php version worked with you?. I am using php-4.2.2-17.


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From: <woodbri at swoodbridge.com>
To: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>; "Murat Isik"
<muratisik at megatek.com.tr>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] php/mapscript error


> Murat,
>
> Please note the the error:
>
> > Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /usr/bin/php on line 358
>
> is not your php script but the php executable. What has happened here
> is that PHP is getting passed the PHP executable as the script name
> and is trying to interpret the executable as the script. I think this
> is problem between Apache and PHP when PHP is configured as a CGI
> module. I have run into this problem before and was able to solve it
> by changing to different version of PHP. I didn't try to diagnose the
> problem just found a workaround to avoid it.
>
> -Steve W.
>
> On 23 Oct 2003 at 16:11, Murat Isik wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been working onphp for the last couple of days with mapscript in
order to write my own dynamic-layer-generating code. But I hit a hard rock
along the way.
> > I am running Redhat 9.0, apache 2.0, mapserver 3.6.0, php-4.2.2-17,
php-mapscript-3.6.0-4. All mapserver and php related stuff is installed
through related rpms.
> > Php works fine both with its own info.php and mapscript's
phpinfo_mapscript.phtml.
> > When I test test_draw_map.phtml, I get the following error: (which I
believe is well known)
> >
> > Fatal error: Due to thread-safety problems, php_mapscript cannot be used
as a 'apache2filter' module. You will have to reconfigure your PHP as a CGI
to run this version of MapScript. See
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PHPMapScriptCGI. in
> /var/www/html/mapserver/itasca/test_draw_map.phtml on line 34
> >
> > I follow the link and do whats told by adding
> >
> > Action application/x-httpd-php /cgi-bin/php
> >
> > line to httpd.conf.
> > Then I test the same test_draw_map.phtml, I get the error:
> >
> > Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /usr/bin/php on line 358
> >
> > Warning: Unexpected character in input: ' in /usr/bin/php on line 358
> >
> > Parse error: parse error, unexpected '[' in /usr/bin/php on line 358
> >
> > test_draw_map.phtml does not have 358 lines. Then I search this error on
the web and end up with this bug page:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73616
> >
> > Then I get stuck there :(
> > Am I missing something here? This is about my ignarence on php,
php/mapscript or is this a real problem?
> > In any case what's the way out? I am sorry if this is stated before in
the maillist and I missed it.
> >
> > Have a nice day
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Murat Isik
> >
> >
> >
> >
>