[mapserver-users] variable substitution

[thomas bonfort]

Either:

- use relative paths
- INCLUDE a mapfile snippet that contains only your SHAPEPATH
- Use runtime substitutions, eg:
  DATA "%basedir%/rasters/foo.tif"
(not recommended, unless you carefully validate the %basedir% substitution)
- use sed when deploying:
  DATA "%%BASEDIR%%/rasters/foo.tif"
then
  sed -i 's#%%BASEDIR%%#/path/to/base#' mapfile.map

there are probably other solutions to...

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thomas

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, http://mapserver.org/mapfile/variable_sub.html details how I can do variable substitution using either cookies or CGI params. My problem is slightly different, and I am hoping one of you wizards must have solved it already so you could help.
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> I have mapfiles on my development machine with one set of path names. These mapfiles, along with the rest of the application, are pushed to a git repo, and then pulled down to the production server where, unfortunately, the path names are different. Short of maintaining two sets of mapfiles, how can I do a variable substitution in the path name so everything works.
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