[mapserver-users] loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp):(line 1)

Wed Nov 12 07:29:28 PST 2008

le nho luu wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm new, and am currently having trouble figuring out what's wrong with my .map files.  I've checked all the lines in my .map files for missing parenthesees.  I'm getting this error when I try to click the button to load both test map files:
> 
> loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp):(line 1)
> 
> Is there something wrong with my environment?  Are there differences in reading code in version 5.0.0.  I am using Windows XP, Mapserver 5.0.0, Apache, and PHP 5.2.4.
> Any help is appreciated!
> Here is my sample hello.map file:
> # This is our "Hello World" mapfile
>  NAME "Hello_World"
>  SIZE 400 300
>  IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
>  IMAGETYPE png
>  EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00
>  WEB
>  	TEMPLATE "/ms4w/apps/vidu/htdocs/hello.html"
> 	IMAGEPATH
>  "/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
>  	IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"
>  END
>  LAYER
>  	STATUS default
> 	TYPE point
> 	FEATURE
>  		POINTS 0.0 0.0 END
>  		TEXT "Hello World"
>  	END # end feature
>  	CLASS
>  		STYLE
>  		COLOR 255 0 0
>  	END
>  	LABEL
>  		TYPE bitmap
>  	END
>  END
>  END
>  END
> Here is my sample hello.html file:
> <html>
>  <head><title>MapServer Hello World</title></head>
>  <body>
>  <form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
>  <input type="submit" value="Click Me">
>  <input type="hidden" name="map" value="/ms4w/apps/vidu/htdocs/hello.map">
>  <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath" value="/ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp">
>  </form>
>  <IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300 border=0>
>  </body>
> </html>
> 
> 

Yes there are difference with 5.0.  In fact I recommend that you always 
search the archives of this list before posting, as this is a common 
problem: 
http://www.nabble.com/msLoadMap()-Unable-to-access-file-td17262195.html#a17286109 
(see my response in that thread).  thank you.

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