[mapserver-users] CONGIG MS_ERRORFILE ownership

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 4/13/2017 1:26 PM, Stefanos Anastasiou wrote:
> Hello list,
>     I noticed that when I set the   CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" 
> "/home/stefanos/mapdata/log_file.log"   it is saved with ownership to 
> www-data for both user and group. Well this seems to cause problem for 
> Python mapscript (at least at my machine with Python version 2.7 - 
> Python 3 is not able to import mapscript at all).  I'm using Spyder as 
> an environment and it gives me the following message
> 
> MapServerError: msSetErrorFile(): General error message. Failed to open 
> MS_ERRORFILE /home/stefanos/mapdata/log_file.log
> 
> mapserv -v
> 
> MapServer version 7.0.1 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=KML SUPPORTS=PROJ 
> SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=ICONV 
> SUPPORTS=XMP SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT 
> SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER 
> SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS 
> INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
> 
> Is there any way to solve this issue ?

Create the file before you use and make if group writable and group 
owned by www-data

sudo rm /home/stefanos/mapdata/log_file.log
touch /home/stefanos/mapdata/log_file.log
chmod 664 /home/stefanos/mapdata/log_file.log
sudo chgrp www-data /home/stefanos/mapdata/log_file.log

-Steve W

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