[mapserver-users] WEB parameters in mapfile being ignored

[Steve Lime]

My bad, didn't read your message closely enough, sorry. That said, I don't know why you're
seeing what you're seeing. If you print out the values of those parameters before you save
the image what do you see?

Steve


>>> On 4/23/2009 at 3:53 PM, in message
<BAY117-DS79867802D672AE8ACE33BF9750 at phx.gbl>, "P.Romero"
<romero619 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> The parameters I was referring to *are*, in fact, those in my mapfile.
> My mapfile contains this:
> WEB
>  LOG "/data/www/html/dev/mslog"
>  IMAGEPATH "/data/www/html/images/mapserver/tmp/"
>  IMAGEURL "/images/mapserver/tmp/"
> END
> (I made sure that permissions for these directories are writable by apache).
> 
> But my 'map.php' file is here:
> /data/www/html/dev
> 
> So, calling '$image->saveWebImage()' causes the resulting .gif file to be
> placed in '/data/www/html/dev' instead of the path listed in my mapfile. 
> 
> Any idea why this could be happening?
> 
> P.R.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lime [mailto:Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us] 
> Sent: 2009-04-23 3:39 PM
> To: P.Romero; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org 
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] WEB parameters in mapfile being ignored
> 
> They're ignored for security reasons. It's simply not a good idea to allow
> an outside user to change where files are being written. They were only ever
> changeable for the sake of convenience when configuring a demo- not a good
> reason.
> 
> Fix is easy, just edit your mapfile and set IMAGEPATH and IMAGEURL
> appropriately in the WEB section.
> 
> Steve
> 
>>>> On 4/23/2009 at 3:18 PM, in message
> <BAY117-DS87A6B2BB872A2FD00E094F9750 at phx.gbl>, "P.Romero"
> <romero619 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I just compiled/installed the 5.4.0 versions of mapserver & mapscript.
>> 
>> Im loading a mapfile from php, drawing & saving the image using 
>> '$image->saveWebImage()'.
>> 
>> However, the WEB parameters for IMAGEPATH & IMAGEURL in my mapfile are 
>> being ignored.
>> The file is being saved in the same directory as the php file that has 
>> the mapscript being called to draw the map.
>> Even the LOG parameter is being ignored.
>> 
>> How can I debug & find out why my WEB parameters are being ignored?
>> 
>> Please help,
>> Thanks,
>> P.Romero
>> 
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