[Tilecache] Pre-packaged examples fail

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:02:38AM -0700, youknowho wrote:
> 
> I've extracted TileCache to /var/www/cgi-bin/tilecache-2.01, left
> tilecache.cfg as is with:
> [cache] 
> type=Disk 
> base=/tmp/tilecache
> 
> and added the following to Apache's httpd.conf:
> <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin/tilecache-2.01>
>     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
>     Options +ExecCGI
> </Directory>
> 
> The two examples provided in the README result in Premature end of script
> headers: tilecache.cgi errors.

Check the Apache error log. It may be helpful. 

> So I changed /tmp/tilecache to be owned by me, in my group, with 777
> permissions. I also tried using a directory within the tilecache-2.01
> directory for the cached data. I also changed the first line of
> tilecache.cgi to !#/usr/bin/python as it had !#/usr/bin/env python. 

Do you have Python installed? Does "which python" give /usr/bin/python? 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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