[Tilecache] error with iis...

[Schuyler Erle]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:52 -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:40:58PM -0600, John Cole wrote:
> > I'm trying to get tilecache running with IIS and I'm getting the following
> > error:
> > 
> > An error occurred: 'tilecache.cgi'
> >   File "C:\Inetpub\tilecache-1.4\TileCache\Service.py", line 459, in
> > cgiHandler
> >     format, image = service.dispatchRequest( params, path_info, host )
> >   File "C:\Inetpub\tilecache-1.4\TileCache\Service.py", line 384, in
> > dispatchRequest
> >     tile = TMS(self).parse(params, path_info, host)
> >   File "C:\Inetpub\tilecache-1.4\TileCache\Service.py", line 244, in parse
> >     layer = self.service.layers[parts[1]]
> > 
> > Have I missed something?  It's working from the standalone server.
> 
> TMS uses path_info. IIS doesn't support path_info (They claim it's a 'security
> risk'). I recommend using a WMS layer if you can. If you can't, I
> don't have a workaround. (Glad to hear any solutions from people who
> know IIS -- I don't have IIS around to test.) 

This is turning into a FAQ... See if this prior message from February
doesn't help. (Please let us know if it does.)

http://openlayers.org/pipermail/tilecache/2007-February/000013.html

SDE