[mapserver-users] Re: Python mapscript throwing "PostGIS support is not available" error

[Roger André]

Well, I've fixed this, but I had to remove the entire build dir and
recompile.  I'm guessing that when ./configure is run the first time, it
creates some sort of mapscript file used later by distutils when Python
mapscript is built.  I can't prove it, and I don't have the time to keep
re-testing, but it appears that neither running "make clean", or recompiling
makes a difference once that file is present.
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Roger André <randre at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm getting kinda stumped by this error.  I'm running MapServer-5.6.0,
> Python 2.6, postgresql-8.4.2, and postgis-1.4.1 on an Ubuntu 9.10 box.  I've
> compiled mapserver with PostGIS support...
>
> $ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv -v
> MapServer version 5.6.0 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
> OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV
> SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER
> SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS
> SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL
> INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>
> and I'm able to make a regular old "mode=map" request via cgi to a layer
> that is coming from PostGIS.  However, when I try to access the same layer
> via Python mapscript, I get the following error:
>
> _mapscript.MapServerError: msDrawMap(): Image handling error. Failed to
> draw layer named 'roadsPG'.
> msPostGISLayerOpen(): General error message. PostGIS support is not
> available.
>
> I had omitted to include Postgis support in my MapServer build initially,
> but did a "make clean" and rebuilt it.  I also re-ran the Python mapscript
> install afterwards.  Is there something else I need to do to clean out the
> old mapscript module?  I'm no distutils expert, so any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
> --
>
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