[Mapserver-users] Relative paths in Mapserver setup ?

[Daniel Morissette]

Lars V. Nielsen wrote:
>  
> Or are relative paths, as one would expect, always considered relative 
> to the file in which the relative path is given ??
>  
> These files are of relevance to me :
> - PHP script that loads the MAP file
> - MAP files
> - symbols definition files
> - font lookup files (fontset)
>  

The general rule is that relative paths are almost always relative to 
the file in which they are located.  A few exceptions I can think of are:

- DATA paths inside a layer are relative to the SHAPEPATH, and if no 
SHAPEPATH is present then they are relative to the mapfile location
- relative paths inside a tileindex file are relative to the SHAPEPATH 
and *not* to the location of the tileindex
- there seem to be some cases where font paths inside a fontset need to 
be absolute (but in general relative font paths should work)

HTH

Daniel
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