[mapserver-users] gdal bigtiff support

[Travis Kirstine]

It turns out to be a user error, I had updated mapserver but failed to
update the cgi wrapper script for the WMS.

Thanks

On 17 November 2011 15:35, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Travis Kirstine
> <traviskirstine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have created some tiled BigTiffs (6 GB) with gdal 1.8 with the
>> internal tif lib.  I keep getting a  "msDrawRaster(): Image handling
>> error. Unrecognized or unsupported image format
>> drawEPP(): Image handling error. EPPL7 support is not available" when
>> attempting render the the image with Mapserver 5.6.7 (w/ gdal 1.8).  I
>> have also noticed that some of my non bigtiff tiled geotiffs are
>> rendering with missing tiles and or in strange colours.  I can access
>> the files with gdal without a issue.  Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Travis,
>
> Are you using full paths to the files in question.  I vaguely suspect
> that the fopen()s used in path construction within MapServer do
> not work properly with large files (>4GB).  If that turns out to be
> the issue please file a ticket on it.
>
> The work around would be to use a full path instead of depending
> on SHAPEPATH or map relative path construction.
>
> Best regards,
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