Newbie Mac OS X MapServer 4.6 question

[Fawcett, David]

Post your map file.  What is on or near line 73 in your Map file?  

What path do you have set for your symbols?  Does this match the location of the files on your system?  

David.

David Fawcett
Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance
david.fawcett at moea.state.mn.us
651.215.0200


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Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Newbie Mac OS X MapServer 4.6
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On Aug 9, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Bill Whitacre wrote:

> I've just installed the MapServer packages from Kyng Chaos and have a
> couple of questions:
>
> 1. When I try the CGI I get the "MapServer Itasca Application" page
> OK but when hit the Initialize button with Basic Application selected
> I get the following error:
>
>
>> getString(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near (none):
>> (line 73)
>>
>
> My form variables look like this in the /workshop/index.html file:
>
>
>>     <!-- EDIT THE FORM ACTION -->
>>     <form name="demo" method="GET" action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"
>> onSubmit="submit_form()">
>>
>>       <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakespy2">
>>       <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="dlgstln2">
>>       <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
>>
>>       <!-- EDIT THESE HIDDEN VARIABLES -->
>>       <input type="hidden" name="map" value="/Library/WebServer/
>> Documents/workshop/itasca.map">
>>       <input type="hidden" name="program" value="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
>>       <input type="hidden" name="root" value="/Library/WebServer/
>> Documents/workshop/">
>>       <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath" value="/Library/
>> WebServer/Documents/tmp/">
>>       <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imageurl" value="/tmp/">
>>
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
The root hidden variable is a web path (URL), not a file system path,  
so it should be "/workshop/".  That's all I can think of from this  
snippet.  But, I'm getting the same thing, and the logs don't tell me  
anything.  Hmm.  It's been so long since I used CGI MapServer.  Maybe  
someone else has an idea.

I see that the itasca readme says it's made for MapServer 4.0, there  
have been enough changes from then to MapServer 4.6 that the demo may  
not work.  I recall seeing some messages on the list about that.

Maybe I should remove that recommendation from my installer readme.   
You could try the tutorial from the MapServer documentation page.

> 2. When I try the testphp.php script - that looks like this:
>
> I get the following error:
>
>
>> Warning: dl(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/
>> extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429/php_mapscript.so' - (null) in /
>> Library/WebServer/Documents/testphp.php on line 2
>>
>
> along with the normal PHP info stuff.
>
> Again, what have I done wrong?
>
Don't know if you did anything wrong, but somehow your httpd.conf is  
looking in the wrong location for php_mapscript.so.  It should be / 
usr/local/php4/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429.  Are you  
using my PHP with this or Apple's PHP?  It doesn't work with Apple's  
PHP.

-----
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