[Tilecache] Tilecache error message

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at metacarta.com
Mon Sep 21 13:53:17 EDT 2009


On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:22:46PM -0400, Yves Moisan wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to publish my GeoServer WMS images with tilecache and i'm
> > getting this error when the pink tiles shows up and I right click them,
> > and then click view image option. I'm running tile cache on a Ubuntu
> > server and the error message is this:
> > 
> > An error occurred: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> > '/tilecache/cache/orto/19'
> >   File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/TileCache/Service.py", line 323, in cgiHandler
> >     format, image = service.dispatchRequest( params, path_info, req_method, host )
> >   File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/TileCache/Service.py", line 208, in dispatchRequest
> >     return self.renderTile(tile, params.has_key('FORCE'))
> >   File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/TileCache/Service.py", line 139, in renderTile
> >     if (data): image = self.cache.set(tile, data)
> >   File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/TileCache/Caches/Disk.py", line 77, in set
> >     self.makedirs(dirname)
> >   File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/TileCache/Caches/Disk.py", line 34, in makedirs
> >     raise E
> 
> Check permissions on the /usr/lib/cgi-bin/TileCache/ directory ?  TC
> cannot create a directory there, if I understand the error message
> correctly.

Actually, the dir in question is: 
  /tilecache/cache/orto

Make sure that it's ojwned by the user doing the requesting; usually www-data
or httpd or 'apache' or some such. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta



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