[mapserver-users] Parameterized MapFile using CGI variable

[Fawcett, David (MPCA)]

One potential way to do it would be with the use of 'include's.

http://mapserver.org/mapfile/Include.html

The primary mapfile wouldn't have a connection object, but it would contain:

INCLUDE "connect_info.map"

Then on each machine, you would have a different version of connect_info.map that contained the correct connection object for that machine.

This wouldn't give you the flexibility of changing it through the CGI interface, but would allow you to use the same exact mapfile on both machines.

David.

From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas BOUTET
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 8:57 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Parameterized MapFile using CGI variable

Dear All,

I have 2 MapServer servers. One for Production use, and the other for Validation use.
The MAP files placed on those servers are similar except that each server has a different Oracle database as datasource.
For now, I have some different CONNECTION values depending if the map file is on the Production or on the Validation server. So finally I must have different MAP files.

Is there a way to have exactly the same map files on the 2 servers, and to use a variable to parameterize the CONNECTION.

For example, I would like to set the CONNECTION of my layers to "%ORACLECONNECTIONSTRING%" and to set a CGI Environment variable named ORACLECONNECTIONSTRING to the correct value on each server.

Nicolas

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