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

[J. Delfos]

Dave,

Thanks for your reply. I checked, and PHP does create session data, and
temporary files. Basically, everything works as supposed, except for the
DHTML image. There is just one thing I have never fully understood; you
mentioned you have to set read-access to all necessary files. This is what
I got:

My public directory is C:\web, so everything inside is already readible.
Inside of it, I got my map file and templates. Also my temp directory for
temporary images (and my session data). I have a virtual directory with
execution permissions to c:\cwc2. However, I have not set any permissions
to the directory with my data (c:\data). So far, I have never had to (on
win 2k). Apparently, my scripts can access it. But is this different for
Win XP? How can I set permissions for that folder, since it is neither in
my public web-folder (server-root), not a virtual directory? I have a
strong suspicion it cannot access this data directory, because it doesn't
have permissions. I did not set up any permissions for my c:\proj
directory either (never had to before).

I'm quite certain I installed all the extensions...

Jacob



--- Dave Astolfo <dastolfo1@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 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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