Cannot locate shapefile

[Ryan Ollerenshaw]

Ryan Ollerenshaw wrote:
> I have had mapserver running successfully for several months now, but 
> i had to reinstall both MapServer and Apache in order to add support 
> for PostgreSQL.  As a result i had to change my file structure a bit 
> and now i am getting the following errors:*
>
> Warning*: [MapServer Error]: msSHPOpenFile(): 
> (/var/www/htdocs/mapserver/./thm_img.shp) in 
> */var/www/htdocs/mapserver/simplemap.phtml* on line *27*
>
> *Warning*: [MapServer Error]: msSHPOpenFile(): 
> (/var/www/htdocs/mapserver/./../data/thm_img.shp) in 
> */var/www/htdocs/mapserver/simplemap.phtml* on line *27*
Ok i found the problem sorry for the post, turns out it was a 
permissions problem on the directory that i had the data stored in.  
Strange that this problem would occur all of the sudden, i was using the 
same directory when i had map server running previously.
> my mapfile is listed below but it was the same one that was working 
> correctly for the last few months, does anyone know the direct cause 
> of this error and why MapServer is looking in two different 
> directories for my shapefile?  when i put the shapefile in both 
> directories the error goes away but i get a blank map:
>
> MAP
>  IMAGETYPE PNG
>  EXTENT -180 -90 180 90
>  #EXTENT -350878.81 -9890271.86 350878.81 9890271.86
>  SIZE 600 500
>  SHAPEPATH "../data/"
>
>  IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
>  WEB
>    IMAGEPATH "/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>    IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
>    METADATA
>      wms_title "WMS test"
>      wms_name "WMS test"
>      wms_srs "EPSG:4326"
>    END
>  END
>
>  PROJECTION
>    "init=epsg:4326"
> #    "proj=sinu"
>    #"lon_0=0"
>    #"ellps=WGS84"
>    #"datum=WGS84"
>  END
>  LAYER
>    NAME "themis"
>    STATUS ON
>    TILEINDEX "thm_img.shp"
>   #TILEINDEX "thm_proj.shp"
>    TILEITEM "location"
>
>    PROJECTION
>      "init=epsg:4326"
>    END
>
>    METADATA
>     wms_title "Themis Dataset"
>     wms_srs "EPSG:4326"
>    END
>    TYPE RASTER
>  END