Problem with an odbc connection

antti siukola siukola.antti at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 11 01:47:08 EDT 2007


Hi!

Can anyone help me with this? It's getting quite frustrating.

Thanks!

Antti S

On 6/3/07, antti siukola <siukola.antti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I get this error when trying to make an odbc connection via ovf:
>
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: msOGRFileOpen(): Open failed for OGR
> connection `/path/name.ovf'. Unable to initialize ODBC connection to
> DSN for user/pass at DSN, [unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not
> found, and no default driver specified in /path/name.class.php on line
> XX
>
> I have set up an DSN to /etc/odbc.ini like this:
>
> [DSN]
> Driver = /usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so // this is my RedHat .so
> DESCRIPTION = mysql driver
> SERVER = localhost
> PORT = 3306
> USER = user // changed to foobar for this email
> Password = pass // changed to foobar for this email
> Database = db // changed to foobar for this email
> SOCKET = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock // this is correct
>
> For me it looks correct. Where could I start searching the problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Antti S
>



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