[mapserver-users] ArcSDE 9.2 support

[Jeff McKenna]

My only comment is that the SDE plugins in MS4W are quite old
(~2007/09/17), but Howard would have to speak to whether that could be
an issue.  Liz, what happens when u try CONNECTIONTYPE PLUGIN (as 
instructed in the MS4W readme[1])?

[1] http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/index.phtml?page=README_INSTALL.html#sde


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Jeff McKenna
FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services
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Liz Godwin wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I noticed there was a closed bug on this issue, but I am still having 
> problems connecting to SDE with Unicade enabled.
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2225
> 
> We have the most recent version of Mapserver (5.2) and all the libraries 
> are updated, and it still does not work.  On windows with MS4W 2.2.9 and 
> the SDE 9.2 plugin, I get the attached image (unicode.png).  On Linux, I 
> get an Internal Server Error (Premature End of Script Error in Apache 
> log) and no debug information is written to the mapserver log.
> 
> Is there something to configure that we're missing to support this change?
> 
> We have a workaround in mind, but it's a lot of work to reload all the 
> data to remove unicode.
> 
>   LAYER # on Linux
>     DEBUG 5
>     NAME myname
>     TYPE point
>     STATUS DEFAULT
>     CONNECTIONTYPE SDE
>     CONNECTION "host,port:xxxx,instance,user,pass"
>     DATA "MARTVECTOR.CUL_NSF_POP_PLACE,SHAPE"
>    
>     LABELITEM "xxxx"
>     CLASS
>       NAME "Points"
>       SYMBOL 'tent'
>       COLOR 255 0 0
>       OUTLINECOLOR 125 125 125
>       SIZE 10
>       LABEL
>        
>         COLOR 255 0 0
>         FONT arial
>         TYPE truetype
>         size 10
>       END
>     END
>