[mapserver-users] Build Errors; Currently "msLoadMap(): Unknown identifier. First token must be MAP, this doesn't look like a mapfile. "

[Richard Marsden]

Thanks David & Michael,

I already had the extra "END" at the end of my map files.  It was the
initial "MAP" which I was missing (probably because I created these files
initially from Bill Kropla's book - and that how he has coded his map
files).

Adding the initial "MAP" fixed all my map applications - they're now all
back to normal.

It turns out my "back to basics" Hello World made the problem more involved
as there are other template-related changes, and my actual map applications
work as WMS servers rather than map templates.


Thanks everyone!

Cheers,

Richard

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) <
David.Fawcett at state.mn.us> wrote:

>  If you still get an error, you will want to make sure that your MAP has
> an associated END line to close out the MAP block.  It will likely be the
> last line in your map file.
>
>
>
> David.
>
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>
> *From:* mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Richard Marsden
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:13 AM
> *To:* Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [mapserver-users] Build Errors; Currently "msLoadMap():
> Unknown identifier. First token must be MAP, this doesn't look like a
> mapfile. "
>
>
>
> Thanks Michael - that has pointed me in the right direction and I now have
> a working "Hello World".
>
>
>
> I had already tried the "MAP" on the first line, but this was giving a
> parsing error on line 1. I assumed this referred to the "MAP" in the map
> file, but it was actually due to a lack of the "magic string" in the
> template.
>
>
>
> Even with those two changes there was another error on "line 1". This was
> actually due to the form field for "map_web_imagepath". Commenting it out
> resulted in a working Hello World template.  Luckily it quoted the problem
> (the directory value), but saying "Line 1" was very misleading for this
> error.
>
>
>
> As a general comment:  With hindsight, these errors make some sense, but it
> is very confusing as to know where (ie. which file) is causing the error.
> "Line 1" is very well, but which file???
>
>
>
> Now to convert the application map files. Hopefully I just need to add the
> "MAP"s at the top. I'll check the symbol defs as well.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH <
> michael.smith at usace.army.mil> wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> Add a new line to the beginning of your mapfile of just the word MAP.
>
> Eg
> MAP
>
>
> NAME "Hello_World"
> SIZE 400 300
> IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
> IMAGETYPE png
> EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00
>
> Its part of some security changes in the latest version of Mapserver. You
> also need to add a SYMBOLSET to the top of symbol files and a new magic
> token to templates
>
> See here
> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-56.html
> For more info
>
> Mike
>
>
> --
> Michael Smith
> RSGIS Center
> US Army Corps of Engineers
>
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