[mapserver-users] Mapserver error: "Web application error. Missingmagic string, ..."

Wed Oct 28 01:22:53 EDT 2009

Thanks guys...

That was most certainly it :-)

Cheers,

  Brent

--- On Wed, 10/28/09, Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

> From: Bob Basques <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver error: "Web application error. Missingmagic string, ..."
> To: pcreso at pcreso.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 12:39 PM
> Brent,
> 
> This should help:
> 
> http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-56.html?highlight=magic%20string
> 
> bobb
> 
> 
> 
> >>> <pcreso at pcreso.com>
> 10/27/09 6:25 PM >>>
> I have an html template that worked fine with an earlier
> version of Mapserver, but not with v5.4.1
> 
> The error mesage is: 
> 
> Content-type: text/html isValidTemplate(): Web application
> error. Missing magic string,
> /srv/www/htdocs/mapdata/linz_topo/linz_250_template.html
> doesn't look like a MapServer template.
> 
> I can't find any docs to help identify what the error is
> & how to fix it.
> 
> Any advice appreciated....
> 
>   Brent Wood
> 
> 
> The (short) html template I was using is:
> 
> <HTML>
>  <HEAD>
>    <TITLE> Mapserver LINZ250
> prototype</TITLE>
>  <HEAD>
>  <CENTER>
>    <H2> Mapserver demonstration of
> LINZ250 data</H2>
>    <FORM method="get"
> action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
>      <TABLE border="0"
> cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
>      <TR>
>      <TD>
>      <B><U>
> 
>      <INPUT name="img" type="image"
> SRC="[img]" width=600 height=480 border=0
>      ALT="Map Image"><BR>
>      <INPUT type="hidden" name="map"
> value="/srv/www/htdocs/linz_topo/linz250.map">
>      <INPUT type="hidden"
> name="imgxy"     value="[center_x]
> [center_y]" >
>      <INPUT type="hidden"
> name="imgext"    value="[mapext]" >
>      <INPUT type="hidden"
> name="map"       value="[map]"
> >
>      <INPUT type="hidden"
> name="savequery" value="true" >
>      <INPUT type="hidden"
> name="mapext"    value="shapes" >
>      <INPUT type="submit"
> value="Redraw/Update">
> 
>      Zoom In   <INPUT
> type=radio name=zoomdir value=1 [zoomdir_1_check]>
>          
>      Re-center <INPUT type=radio
> name=zoomdir value=0 [zoomdir_0_check]>
>          
>      Zoom Out  <INPUT
> type=radio name=zoomdir value=-1 [zoomdir_-1_check]>
>          
>      Zoom size <INPUT type=text
> name=zoomsize size=3 value=[zoomsize]>
> 
>      </TD>
>      </TR>
>    </TABLE>
>    </FORM>
> 
>  </CENTER>
>  </BODY>
> </HTML>
> 
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