Logging error messages, environment variable MS_ERRORFILE

[Benjamin Thelen]

Thanks Bart,

meanwhile I found out how to accomplish this. Yes, I'm using Apache.

Something like this:

In httpd.conf
SetEnv MS_ERRORFILE "stderr"
SetEnv MS_ERRORFILE /tmp/logfile


The pitty is, that I still don't get closer to my Oracle connection
error. I had the hope, that I get more detailed debugging information.
But that will follow as a new thread.




Regards,
Ben


Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>