maplab question

[Umberto Nicoletti]

Quoting Joseph Norris <sirronj at PACBELL.NET>:

> Hello - I don't know if this off the subject - but here are two questions
> that I would put to one and all:
>
> First of all on maplab-2.2   I am getting the following when I try to browse
> maps:
>
> Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library
> '/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/php_dbase.dll' -
> /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/php_dbase.dll:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in
> /usr/local/apache/htdocs/mco.communityservers.com/htdocs/maplab-2.2/htdocs/c
> ommon/phpwms/dbf.php on line 151
>

Strange that on linux you try to load dll... shared libraries on linux have .so
extension.

> It has occurred to me that this might be why I am having my other mapserver
> problems - not sure
>
>
> Second:
>
> Can anyone give me the most simple of all mapfiles so that I might begin
> with this and work my way up to more complex applications.
>
> I am having no success at all with getting any of my maps to display.  I
> have installed the demo and it works very well but any of my own maps ( that
> I have obtained from ESRI - so they should work )   are not working at all.
>
> I implore all - get me started so I can go forward into the wonderful world
> of open source GIS.
>

Look at the workshop example (downloadable from mapserver web).
In the mapserver source tarball there is a test directory with a rather simple
map file.

HTH,
Umberto


>
> #Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/Linux/CGI/Mysql) print @c=map chr
> $_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-
> 68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);
>