[Chameleon] Problem with moving Chameleon from 2K to XP....

[Dave Astolfo]

Jacob,

Although, I did not have the same problems, I did have issues with
installing in an XP / IIS machine. I will explain what I did, and it may
offer you some insight.

Installed on:
Win XP Laptop w/ IIS
Chameleon 1.1

First:
since I had it all running on a Win 2k server, I simply copied all the
core folders and files over for mapserver and chameleon (since there is
no installation or dll registration required for these).
Installed a fresh copy of PHP.
I had to edit both the cwc2.xml and php.ini to make changes such as:
http://localhost and directory changes from /winnt/ to /windows/
I also had to ensure that my web user had read access to all the
necessary files in the file system. 
In IIS, make sure you set r/w access to the necessary folders as well.
And, ensure that the cgi_bin folder has read + execute access.
I got it all working to a point, but then got the error with unable to
load the DLL (php/extensions) error.  After reviewing my install notes,
I realized that I forgot to install
the zip files that were embedded in the PHP/Mapscript zip installation
file. Once I did this, it all worked fine.

Some things to check:
Since your map is partially starting, check your temp folder to see that
it is successfully creating temp images.
Also check that your session files are being created in php/sessiondata/
As for permissions - in the beginning, I thought that was my issue, but
after I figured out the zip issue, I ensured that my web user only had
read access to all the necessary files on the file system.

Hope this leads you to your answer...

Dave A.

-----Original Message-----
From: chameleon-admin@lists.maptools.org
[mailto:chameleon-admin@lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of J. Delfos
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 5:35 AM
To: chameleon@lists.maptools.org
Subject: [Chameleon] Problem with moving Chameleon from 2K to XP....


Hi List,

I developed a website with Chameleon 1.1, and got it working without any
issues. I have managed to install it on a few different computers, with
windows 2000 running IIS 5.0. Today I tried to install it on a computer
with windows XP, running IIS 5.1, but it didn't work. The page does
load, but the dhtmlmap image does not show up. In other words, the
drawmap.php file does not run the way it's supposed to, because the URL
of the dhtml map image does not return a map (tried loading it
seperately using the source of the image). Legend works, including
thumbnails for layers. Coordinates etc. are correct.

Can anyone give me some clues as to what difference between XP and 2K
causes this, and how to fix it? I have used the exact same files to
install it (PHP 4.3.4, etc.), same DLL's, everything. I copied all my
files from a site that worked, only changing URL's, because all my file
paths are the same. The approach worked when porting between windows
2000 machines. Are there differences with regards to permissions between
the two OS's? The only difference I spotted was that on this PC, windows
was installed in "c:\windows", in stead of "c:\winnt".

regards,

Jacob

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