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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The difference is MapServer version, not Ubuntu. You *<b>must</b>* define a validation pattern (a regex) for qstring values. In either the web or layer block (depending on your app) you’d do something like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> ‘qstring’ ‘^\/ESD-[0-9]*\/i$’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">END<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Depends on what sort of values you might see of course. It looks worse than it is because you want to escape (I think) a few special characters. Hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Haug, Jim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 02, 2014 3:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mapserver-users] Ubuntu 14.04 and Mapserver 6.4.1-2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 with no visible issues. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The url below is generated in my web page code and is sent to the mapserver:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hawken.sdsmt.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv?mode=itemnquery&qformat=png&map=/gisdata/sd/sd_x-printform.map&qlayer=surveys&qitem=archive&qstring=/ESD-0498/i&layer=sites&layer=drg024k_13N&layer=drg024k_14N&layer=drg250k_13N&layer=drg250k_14N&layer=sd_plss&layer=sd_tr&mapsize=480+480&mapext=shape&scaledenom=932875">http://hawken.sdsmt.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv?mode=itemnquery&qformat=png&map=/gisdata/sd/sd_x-printform.map&qlayer=surveys&qitem=archive&qstring=/ESD-0498/i&layer=sites&layer=drg024k_13N&layer=drg024k_14N&layer=drg250k_13N&layer=drg250k_14N&layer=sd_plss&layer=sd_tr&mapsize=480+480&mapext=shape&scaledenom=932875</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It worked fine in Ubuntu 13.10 using Mapserver version 6.2.1-3 and generated a map properly. It no longer works in mapserver 6.4.1-2 in Ubuntu 14.04. Now I get the error message<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">mapserv(): Web application error. Parameter 'qstring' value fails to validate. msValidateParameter(): Regular expression error. Parameter pattern validation failed.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">None of my underlying data or map files have changed. I’m completely mystified as to why this is happening. I hope I don’t have to revert to Ubuntu 13.10, but I have a backup in case I need to.<o:p></o:p></p>
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