[mapserver-users] map file paths

[Richard Greenwood]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David Hildebrand
<David.Hildebrand at afsc.ca> wrote:
> Is there a way of abbreviating pathnames to the map file?  For instance, my
> URL to produce a map is
>
>
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> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=//fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/MapServer/sample.map&mode=map
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> In my apache configuration file I have
> //fileserver/PDP/Program_Dev/DHildebrand/geoprocessing_server/ aliased to
> /test/ but the alias does not seem to work with CGI.  I’m just wondering if
> there is a workaround so that I don’t need to specify the whole file path in
> my URL.
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> Thanks.
>
> ===========================
> David V. Hildebrand
> Agriculture Financial Services Corporation
> (403) 782-8239

In your Apache httpd.conf add:
   SetEnv MY_MAP  "C:/path/to/my/mapfile.map"

and then your URL can be:
   http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=MYMAP&mode=map

Shorter URL, better security.

Rich

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