Displaying GRASS]

[Matt Doggett]

My experience is similar to Richards. If I don't have a .grassrc5 file
in DocumentRoot, then my GRASS rasters won't show up, regardless of
specifying complete pathname to the raster. The grassrc5 file must point
to a valid location/mapset that the webserver can access. Perhaps it
depends on what OS you're running? I'm using RH Linux.

Matt
Mapserver 4.2.3, Gdal 1.2.1, RH Linux 8.0, PHP 4.3.4

>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]
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>Behalf Of Richard Greenwood
>Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 7:24 PM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Displaying GRASS]
>
>On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:12:47 +0200, Jan Hartmann
<j.l.h.hartmann at uva.nl>
>wrote:
>> Richard Greenwood wrote:
>>
>>   >
>> > Jan,
>> >
>> > I know you have suggested using the full path in the past, but I
never
>> > got it to work. I have always relied upon the .grassrc5 file in
>> > htdocs. I wonder if there is anything else unique to your
>> > configuration that allows the full path approach to work for you,
but
>> > not for the rest of us?
>> >
>>
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>> Well, I looked and didn't find a .grassrc5 file in my server
>> environment. According to the libgrass README the MapServer-GRASS
>> interface will read information about Location, Mapset and Database
from
>> $DOCUMENT_ROOT/.grassrc5. I would have thought that this was only
done
>> with relative pathnames, as in the standalone GDAL utilities, but
>> perhaps it also happens with full pathnames. In that case it is a
bug.
>> You could try to remove .grassrc in $DOCUMENT_ROOT, and see if you
can
>> access GRASS rasters with with their full path in MapServer. I have
been
>> doing it for years!
>>
>> Jan
>>
>
>Well I tried a few things, and for me, I still seem to need the
>.grassrc5 in htdocs. Using the full path I was able to point at a
>different MAPSET than the one defined in .grassrc5, however the
>MAPSET defined in .grassrc must still be a valid, existing mapset. My
>gdal version is 1.2.0.0.
>
>This situation does not cause me any trouble, I am just sharing my
>experience in case it is useful in Ljiljana's situation.
>
>Jan, you don't by any chance set the GISDBASE, LOCATION_NAME, or
>MAPSET as environment variables do you?
>
>Regards,
>--
>Richard Greenwood
>richard.greenwood at gmail.com
>www.greenwoodmap.com