[MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserv problems on Fedora

Tue Apr 29 06:03:15 PDT 2008

Do you think overriding the default mapfile pattern ("\\.map$") by setting 
MS_MAPFILE_PATTERN could be a solution?

(though I still don't get why the regular expression returns as false,
the path in the URL obviously fits the default pattern...??)

Philippe

Philippe Kruschitz wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Steven,
> 
> Thanks for the hint. I'm glad it worked for you, although I doubt this has
> anything to do with AGG.
> Usually, trying to access non-existent mapfiles throws a LoadMap error:
> 
> msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. (/home/pk/gis/no.map)
> 
> Trying with non-existent and working mapfiles (using GD rendering) always
> gets me the same error:
> 
> [http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=no.map]
> msEvalRegex(): Regular expression error. String (no.map) failed expression
> test.
> 
> [http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/pk/gis/no.map]
> msEvalRegex(): Regular expression error. String (/home/pk/gis/no.map)
> failed expression test.
> 
> [http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/pk/gis/test.map]
> msEvalRegex(): Regular expression error. String (/home/pk/gis/test.map)
> failed expression test.
> 
> 
> To be sure, I recompiled Mapserver without agg support, getting the same
> result.
> I'm slowly considering switching to an Ubuntu server, as I tried almost
> everything I could.
> 
> By the way, how did you find out about your bug?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> 
>> Philippe,
>> 
>> My regex crash was because of a bug in mapserver
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2577#comment:8
>> 
>> which has been fixed now in svn. It was specifically related to a crash 
>> cause when AGG FORMATOPTION PALETTE=<file> could not open <file>.
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>>    -Steve W
>> 
>> Philippe Kruschitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You --must-- compile and install the last version of
>>>> gd, the gd version on RHEL 5 and 5.1 is broken, also
>>>> on centos and fedora core 8.
>>>>
>>>> Be sure to replace the old gd version on /usr/lib,
>>>> also check the simlinks on /usr/lib, then run ldconfig
>>>> as root.
>>>>
>>>> If you use mapserver with phpmapscript install php-gd
>>>> with yum.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Saludos.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Nahum Castro
>>>> Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
>>>> http://www.leon-linux.com
>>>> e-mail: pedro1_72 [en] yahoo [punto] com
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I did pretty much everything you said before compiling mapserver (i
>>> didn't
>>> have mapscript, though).
>>> 
>>> I tried to to change the malloc value, as frank warmerdam suggested,
>>> with
>>> exactly the same result as stephen woodbridge: the crash is fixed, but
>>> the
>>> regular expression systematically fails.....
>>> 
>>> Anyone has an idea? Did Stephen fixed it?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Phil
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Quote S. Woodbridge:
>>> 
>>> Hi Frank,
>>> 
>>> Adding more to to the malloc fixed the crash, but the regex is failing
>>> :( and should be ok:
>>> 
>>> Breakpoint 1, msEvalRegex (e=0x4e9873 "\\.map$",
>>>      s=0x7232a0 "/u/data/maps/google-agg.map") at mapfile.c:79
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> 89        if(ms_regexec(&re, s, 0, NULL, 0) != 0) { /* no match */
>>> (gdb) p ms_regexec(&re, s, 0, 0, 0)
>>> $1 = 1
>>> (gdb) c
>>> Continuing.
>>> Content-type: text/html
>>> 
>>> <HTML>
>>> <HEAD><TITLE>MapServer Message</TITLE></HEAD>
>>> <!-- MapServer version 5.0.2 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG
>>> OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE
>>> SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER INPUT=EPPL7
>>> INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE -->
>>> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
>>> msEvalRegex(): Regular expression error. String
>>> (/u/data/maps/google-agg.map) failed expression test.
>>> </BODY></HTML>
>>> Program exited normally.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This should NOT be happening. Arrrgh!
>>> Anyone else using fc8 on a x86_84 box?
>>> 
>>> -Steve
>>> 
>> 
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