Logging error messages, environment variable MS_ERRORFILE

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi,

are you using Apache? You can then set the variable using SetEnv in the
httpd.conf.

Also on Windows, I could not get Mapserver to use the system (or user)
environment variables, I had to set them in Apache.

See also:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DebuggingMapserver

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi,
>
> I was told somewhere that I could set an environment variable called
> MS_ERRORFILE within system variables under Windows and assign a path
> to a text file for logging purposes. Then UMN-MapServer error messages
> are expected to be more communicative. I never testet it under
> Windows, I need this for Unix/Linux systems. I tried to set this
> variable in a shell, but UMN-MapServer doesn't write anything to the
> assigned file.
>
> Background for this are error messages like "Cannot draw layer XYZ".
> It would be really helpful, to have more information about this
> "Cannot" :-)!
>
>
> Any ideas? Any ideas about this MS_ERRORFILE. You'll find the
> following line in maperror.c (that is not the only appearance)
> errfile = getenv("MS_ERRORFILE");
>
> Maybe that is a questions which would better be addressed to the dev-list?
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Benjamin
>