[MapServer-users] multiple shapepaths

[Jan Hartmann]

No, this would make the file system on my server an even worse spaghetti 
mess than when I move the files physically under one root. I want to 
leave everything as distributed as possible.

Cheers, Rich, Steve and all,

Jan

On 06/12/2023 14:21, Richard Greenwood wrote:
> How about just symlink in the file system?
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 12:14 AM Jan Hartmann via MapServer-users 
> <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>     How about a shapepath at the layer level? I am combining 20 years
>     of working with old maps in three (or four :-)) different
>     countries (Netherlands, Germany and Flemish and Walloon Belgium),
>     all in their own formats, projections, directories an servers. It
>     would help to keep my applications (and my mind) clear if I could
>     use the appropriate shapepaths. And as to portability, it is
>     essential to use relative paths. Just try to move a website to a
>     new server with a differently named filesystem, if all paths are
>     hard coded.
>
>     Jan
>
>>     Op 5 dec 2023 om 15:43 heeft Steve Lime <sdlime at gmail.com> het
>>     volgende geschreven:
>>
>>     
>>     It won’t work. A configuration is loaded in entirety first, and
>>     then applied as necessary.
>>
>>     On Tue, Dec 5, 2023 at 7:21 AM Jan Hartmann via MapServer-users
>>     <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>         Not sure. I cannot get it working anyway. Any ideas, Steve?
>>
>>         On 04/12/2023 10:10, Jörg Thomsen (WhereGroup) via
>>         MapServer-users wrote:
>>         > Hi,
>>         >
>>         > I am not sure, but perhaps overwriting it, would work?
>>         >
>>         > MAP
>>         >
>>         >   shapepath 'blah'
>>         >
>>         >   Layer 1
>>         >   Layer 2
>>         >
>>         >   shapepath 'blubb'
>>         >
>>         >   Layer 3
>>         >   Layer 4
>>         >
>>         > Jörg
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > Am 02.12.23 um 19:32 schrieb Jan Hartmann via MapServer-users:
>>         >> Yes, that is what I sought, didn't know it was possible.
>>         Thanks!
>>         >>
>>         >> Jan
>>         >>
>>         >> On 02/12/2023 19:29, Steve Lime wrote:
>>         >>> One other thought, you can use multiple paths via runtime
>>         subs to
>>         >>> approximate what I think you’re looking for, so:
>>         >>>
>>         >>> WEB
>>         >>>   VALIDATION
>>         >>>     path1_default “/opt/path1”
>>         >>>     path1 “^\/opt\/path1$”
>>         >>>   path2_default “/opt/path2”
>>         >>>   path2 “^\/opt\/path2$”
>>         >>>   END
>>         >>> END
>>         >>>
>>         >>> Then in DATA values you’d use %path1% or %path2%. This is
>>         another
>>         >>> use case for variables that was suggested recently. We
>>         could,
>>         >>> perhaps, define a way to mark something as immutable via
>>         url so the
>>         >>> regex could be simplified and only the default would ever
>>         be used
>>         >>> (e.g. “path2” “immutable”).
>>         >>>
>>         >>> —Steve
>>         >>>
>>         >>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 11:28 PM Steve Lime
>>         <sdlime at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         >>>
>>         >>>     Nope, just the one value.
>>         >>>
>>         >>>     On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 1:02 PM Jan Hartmann via
>>         MapServer-users
>>         >>>     <mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>         >>>
>>         >>>         Hi,
>>         >>>
>>         >>>         Is it possible to use multiple paths in a shapepath?
>>         >>>         ./data1:./data2
>>         >>>         does not work
>>         >>>
>>         >>>         Jan
>>         >>> _______________________________________________
>>         >>>         MapServer-users mailing list
>>         >>> MapServer-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>         >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
>>         >>>
>>         >>
>>         >>
>>         >> _______________________________________________
>>         >> MapServer-users mailing list
>>         >> MapServer-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>         >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
>>         >
>>
>>         _______________________________________________
>>         MapServer-users mailing list
>>         MapServer-users at lists.osgeo.org
>>         https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
>>
>     _______________________________________________
>     MapServer-users mailing list
>     MapServer-users at lists.osgeo.org
>     https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
>
>
>
> -- 
> Richard W. Greenwood
> www.greenwoodmap.com <http://www.greenwoodmap.com>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/attachments/20231206/273a5c10/attachment.htm>