[MAPSERVER-USERS] Need a little help interpreting an error.
Marwood
SOUND.DESIGN at NTLWORLD.COM
Sun Mar 9 14:23:53 EDT 2008
Hi,
I'm currently going through the 5th chapter of Beginning Mapserver, by
Kropla, and I'm trying to get the demo fourth.html working on my
installation.
The page comes up fine, but without a map image, or reference image, and if
I click on the map (to force an error message) I get the following:
getDouble(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near ([):(line 194)
I'm pretty sure it's referring to my mapfile, but for one thing, that's the
very end - ie: END # end of map file
The previous line is another END statement for the layer.
I can't see any obvious error, and the "[" character doesn't even occur in
the map file, so how the parsing error can be near one mystifies me a bit.
It could be a mapserver (Linux) environment problem, as I've found I can't
invoke shpinfo, gdalinfo and the like from command line.
Can anyone give me any pointers on how I can narrow it down a little?
(Mapfile below - mostly unmodified, only paths changed, and one font.)
Finally, does anyone have any pointers for any good discussion forums for
mapserver - I find mailing lists a bit clunky :/
Marwood
#####################################
#
# MapServer Fourth application
#
#####################################
# Map object
#
NAME "Fourth" # used as base image name
UNITS dd # units are decimal degrees
EXTENT -180.0 -85.0 180.0 85.0 # map extent
SIZE 640 320 # map image size in pixels
IMAGECOLOR 200 225 255 # background color
IMAGETYPE gif # image type jpeg/gif/png
SHAPEPATH "/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/data/" # path to
data directory
#FONTSET "/var/www/htdocs/fontset.txt" # pointers to fonts
FONTSET "/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/fonts/fonts.list"
#####################################
# Web object
#
WEB
# A header/footer defined in a web object is displayed
# before/after any individual query response is made.
# It is displayed only once.
#
HEADER
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_web_header.html"
FOOTER
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_web_footer.html"
EMPTY "/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_empty.html" # URL
TEMPLATE "/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth.html"
IMAGEPATH "/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/"
IMAGEURL "/files/maps/htdocs/tmp/" # URL
# HEADER "/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_web_header.html"
# FOOTER "/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_web_footer.html"
# EMPTY "/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_empty.html" # URL
# TEMPLATE "/files/maps/htdocs/fourth.html"
# IMAGEPATH "/files/maps/htdocs/"
# IMAGEURL "/files/maps/htdocs/tmp/" # URL
END
#####################################
# Reference map
#
REFERENCE
IMAGE
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_worldref.gif"
SIZE 320 160
EXTENT -180.0 -85.0 180.0 85.0
STATUS ON
COLOR -1 -1 -1
OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
END
#####################################
# Querymap object
#
QUERYMAP
STATUS on # draw query map
STYLE hilite # highlight selected feature
COLOR 255 255 0 # in yellow
SIZE 320 160
END
####################################
# Country layer
#
LAYER
NAME "Countries"
STATUS on
TYPE polygon
DATA "countries"
# A header or footer defined at the layer level is displayed
# if that layer is a query layer. It is displayed only once.
#
HEADER
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_countries_header.html"
FOOTER
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_countries_footer.html"
TOLERANCE 1 # must be within 1 tolerance unit
TOLERANCEUNITS miles # units for tolerance values is miles
CLASS
# A template defined at the class level is used to
# display the results for each reponse to a query. If a
# query results in N hits, then the template will be used
# N times. To be queriable a layer must specify a CLASS
# level template.
#
TEMPLATE
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_countries_query.html"
STYLE
COLOR 199 199 199
END
END # end class
END # end layer
####################################
# Cities layer
#
LAYER
NAME "Cities"
STATUS on
TYPE point
DATA "cities"
LABELITEM "CITY" # labels use value in column "CITY"
LABELCACHE on
# A header or footer defined at the layer level is displayed
# if that layer is a query layer. It is displayed only once.
#
HEADER
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_cities_header.html"
FOOTER
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_cities_footer.html"
TOLERANCE 1 # must be within 1 tolerance unit
TOLERANCEUNITS miles # units for tolerance values is miles
CLASS
# A template defined at the class level is used to display
# the results for each reponse to a query. If a result set
# contains N, then the template will be used N times.
#
TEMPLATE
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_cities_query.html"
STYLE
COLOR 0 0 0 # symbol color is black
END
LABEL
TYPE truetype # use truetype font
#FONT "arialbd" # use arial bold
FONT "arial-bold" # use arial bold
SIZE 8 # use 8 point size
COLOR 255 0 0 # color text red
BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255 # render text on white bg
MINDISTANCE 50 # labels > 50 pixels apart
POSITION lc # center labels below feature
ANTIALIAS true # antialias the text
END # end label
END # end class
# To use information stored in a DBF file external to a shape
# file requires a JOIN. You must identify the external file
# with the keyword TABLE. The NAME is the reference to use in
# the template file. To link the shape to the external DBF,
# FROM and TO specify the fields that must match.
JOIN
TABLE
"/home/g/i/gisel/public_html/files/maps/htdocs/fourth_join.dbf"
NAME "test-join"
FROM "CITY"
TO "CITY"
END
END # end layer
####################################
# Line layer for Country boundaries
#
LAYER
NAME "Boundaries"
STATUS default
TYPE line
DATA "countries"
CLASS
STYLE
COLOR 0 0 0
END
END # end class
END # end layer
####################################
# Annotation layer for Countries
LAYER
STATUS DEFAULT # this layer is always rendered
TYPE annotation
DATA "countries"
LABELITEM "STATE" # labels use value in column "STATE"
LABELCACHE on
CLASS # class renders line & label
STYLE
COLOR 0 0 0 # line color is black
END
LABEL
TYPE truetype # use truetype font
#FONT "arialbi" # use arial bold
FONT "arial-bold" # use arial bold - as defined in fonts.list
SIZE 8 # use 8 point szie
COLOR 0 0 0 # color text black
BACKGROUNDCOLOR 255 255 255 # render text on white bg
MINDISTANCE 50 # labels > 50 pixels apart
POSITION cc # labels in center of feature
ANTIALIAS true # antialias the text
END # end label
END # end class
END # end layer
END # end of map file
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