[MapServer-users] Setting up Mapserver 8 on Windows

[Jörg Thomsen (WhereGroup)]

Hi Michaël,

you are right, it depends on the cgi-mode.

SetEnv in apache is used für cgi-variables and
cgidInitialEnv is used für fast-cgi-variabes

it's a general issue not only windows and more a webserver issue than 
one of MapServer.

Jörg




Am 12.12.22 um 15:22 schrieb Kalbermatten Michaël:
> Hi everbody,
> 
> I just spend a couple of hours trying to set up Mapserver 8.0 on 
> Windows. To do that, I downloaded the latest stable release from 
> GisInternals.
> 
> I am using Apache and FastCGI as webserver.
> 
> Everything went smoothly until I tried to make Mapserver load the new 
> needed configuration file. It was just always claiming that it couln’t 
> load this file (“msLoadConfig(): Unable to access file.”), but I had set 
> “SetEnv MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE” in my Apache configuration. Even setting 
> MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE in a global system variable did not solve the issue.
> 
> After quite a while, I found this issue on Mapserver’s issue tracker: 
> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/6411 
> <https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/6411>
> 
> This had not a lot to do with my issue, but I discovered the existence 
> of FcgidInitialEnv. Setting this variable (FcgidInitialEnv 
> MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE "C:/whereever/mapserver.conf") solved the issue.
> 
> So, is it mandatory to set FcgidInitialEnv when using Mapserver with 
> FastCGI? If yes, wouldn’t it be good to add something to the 
> documentation (https://mapserver.org/mapfile/config.html 
> <https://mapserver.org/mapfile/config.html>).
> 
> Moreover, I spied in the ms4w 5 package. It seemed to me that they were 
> using FastCGI as well, but I could not find anything regarding 
> FcgidInitialEnv, thus my question…
> 
> Thanks a lot to anyone who would have some information regarding that.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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