[mapserver-users] Path for errorfile

[Jeff McKenna]

Ben Madin wrote:
> G'day Daniel,
> 
> On 09/01/2009, at 10:47 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
>> You are correct that relative paths are not supported for 
>> MS_ERRORFILE. You could file a ticket about this, and if/when time 
>> permits we'll look at the implications of supporting relative paths in 
>> all possible scenarios and see if this could safely be added. i.e. it 
>> may be possible to get predictable results with a relative path only 
>> when setting MS_ERRORFILE in the mapfile but not when setting it via 
>> an environment variable, we'll have to see.
> 
> Thanks for the response, I have submitted it as a low priority 
> enhancement (#2853), maybe just updating the documentation to clarify 
> this point is enough for now. (Because I'm building on Mac OSX and 
> deploying on FreeBSD, I'm a shameless user of relative references!)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Ben

Ben can you also file a ticket for the doc changes (in the "MapServer 
Documentation" component)?  I'll update them for you when you do that, 
thanks.

-jeff



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