PHPMapscript CGI =>trouble

[William K]

This is the sort of feedback I need to tune my distribution.  So far
it's been tested on a few clean Mac OS X systems (10.3.8).

A few things I can think of-

- when you installed my mapserver package, you also installed my PHP,
gislibs, graphicslibs and postgres?  My PHP probably isn't required -
mapserver doesn't link directly to PHP - but if you use an alternate
PHP, it should be installed in the same default location as in the PHP
source: /usr/local/php.  I think entropy's PHP does, but I haven't
verified that yet.  And the PHP extension folder should be
'extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429' in there.  Even if you don't use
postgres, both my PHP and MapServer are linked to it, as well as GDAL.
You don't need to run postgres, just install it.

- check the phpinfo() listing to make sure that php and mapscript are
loading.  I have an example in the PHP and MapServer readmes, but
here's a recap - make a file testphp.php in your home/Sites folder
with:

<?php
dl("php_mapscript.so");
phpinfo();
?>

Point Safari at localhost/~[your_user_name]/phptest.php and you should
see all the gorey details of PHP's configuration, and in there should
be a MapScript section.

- Apple's httpd.conf is set up to use .php as the file extension for
PHP files, not phtml.  Try changing the example files to .php.


On Apr 6, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Wannes Van der Gucht wrote:

> At first I was running mapserver on the stock Apache 1.3.33 that comes
> with Mac
> OS 10.3., but because that was not working I installed Apache 2. The
> itasca demo
> (Mapserver 3.6.4) was working, but when I tried the MSrecipes demo from
> (http://www.mobilegeographics.com/mapserver/) it didn't work. (The
> requested URL
> /cgi/php/MSrecipes/hello.phtml was not found on this server)
>
> Trying to solve the problem I switched back to Apache 1.3.33 and
> installed the
> package at charter.net (after removing previous Mapserver 3.6.4). But
> now I get
> the following error when I try the demo from
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html:
>
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> unable to
> complete your request.
>
> Something wrong with the config file? I removed PHP4 and Mapserver,
> got a clean
> httpd.conf file and re-installed PHP4(entropy package) and Mapserver
> 4.4.1
> (charter.net package). I thought that would work but I still get the
> same error!
> Am I in trouble?!
>
> Citeren William K <woklist at CHARTER.NET>:
>
>> Don't know much about PHP + Apache 2 (or the Serverlogistics
>> distributions of these), but I recall that there are issues with
>> running MapServer in Apache 2.  I think?  Can someone else say?
>>
>> But, while their PHP and Apache 2 distributions may be fairly
>> up-to-date, that's a very old MapServer.  Do you have to use Apache 2?
>> I just recently put together a current MapServer package for Mac OS X.
>> MS 4.4.1, includes both CGI MapServer and PHP-MapScript (for PHP as an
>> Apache module, which I also include).  All support libraries included.
>> All made for the stock Apache 1.3.33 that comes with Mac OS 10.3.
>>
>> Check out my MapServer page:
>> <http://webpages.charter.net/kyngchaos/macosx/mapservinstall.html>.

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