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

[J. Delfos]

Paul,

I did not forget to copy the proj directory (made that mistake before,
won't do it again!). Also, when I did forget, I got a completely blank
page. The only case in which I had similar symptoms (half a page) was when
I forgot plugins. 
Does it matter if I dumped the PHP extensions into the windows system
directory? The installation file for windows for IIS is somewhat
different, and rather stripped. So I copy the extension DLL's from the
full (apache) installation file, and put it in the system directory.
Worked so far....

My sessions information sits in my public folder, in TMP. I checked, and
it seems okay. It has access. I will try to do the debugging with drawmap
as you suggested. Otherwise I'll install apache instead.

regards,

Jacob

--- Paul Spencer <pagameba@magma.ca> wrote:
> Jacob,
> 
> I am suprised at this.  I have had no problems on WinXP using Apache, so
> 
> I suspect that your issue is related to subtle differences in IIS 
> versions.  Unfortunately I have little experience with IIS nor do I have
> 
> access to the versions that you are using.  I can only assume that you 
> have tried all the usual things and that there is some deeper issue.  If
> 
> the page loads normally and the only problem is with the drawmap.php not
> 
> returning an image, I would look in two places:
> 
> 1. access to the session information.  Chameleon uses PHP session 
> management functionality and it is possible that IIS is preventing 
> access to the session.  You would have had to identify a place for php 
> to store session information, that location must be accessible to the 
> web server user.  You can test to see if drawmap.php is having a problem
> 
> re-instating the session by adding the following at the top of
> drawmap.php:
> 
> <?php
> echo "<PRE>";
> print_r( $_SESSION );
> echo "</PRE>";
> ?>
> 
> You should see quite a lot of stuff printed out, if you don't then there
> 
> is a problem.
> 
> 2. drawmap.php has a problem of some sort.  Normally grabbing the URL 
> from the image and loading in a separate browser will result in some 
> output that indicates the error.  You can instrument drawmap.php with 
> some echo statements to figure out where it is failing.
> 
> One other thing occurred to me, did you install PROJ?  That could cause 
> problems too.
> 
> Cheers and good luck,
> 
> Paul
> 
> J. Delfos wrote:
> > 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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