[OpenLayers-Users] Problems setting up TileCache

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 03:10:17PM -0800, Ben Brehmer wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have setup a very basic Open Layers application and am now in the 
> process of setting up TileCache. I have proded and poked my 
> tilecache.cfg file extensively and still can't get past an error which 
> has to do with with the "type" attribute for the [cache] section.
> Basically when tilecache.cgi is invoked it never gets past parsing the 
> .cfg file and errors out at the "type=DiskCache" line, saying that the 
> string requires a character as left operand.
> 
> Is there some other configuration issues I should know about when 
> setting up TileCache?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Error and cfg file details:
> 
> tilecache.cfg file:
> 
> [cache]
> type=DiskCache                                        <-----------Error
> base=/home/httpd/cf2/html/tilecache/
> [basic]
> type=WMSLayer
> url=http://office.refractions.net/ms/cgi-bin/mapserv
> extension=png
> 
> 
> 
> The error I pull out of my error log:
> 
> TypeError:
> 'in <string>' requires character as left operand

Oddly enough, this sounds like a bug in ConfigParser more than anything
else... Do the logs give you any kind of traceback or anything like a
line number where the error is happening?

We're using Python2.4 for our TileCache workings, but I know that people
have got it running under 2.3 -- this error is definitely something you
wouldn't see under Python2.4, but I don't know if that would fix your
problem. 

I've just downloaded a clean TileCache 1.1, and edited tilecache.cgi to
use Python2.3, and I'm not getting this error, unfortunately. If you
could give any more information as to where in the code this error is
happening, I'd appreciate it, and will investigate as best I can.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta