[Chameleon] New User, Needs Help!

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi David,

some of the 1.99 widgets require you updating to Mapserver/Mapscript 4.2.

So install:

http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/mapserver_ms4w-4.2.0-20040607.zip

MS4W is intended for root use, so you can use it at c: or d: etc. no 
problem. Only do not place it in a subdirectory as then you need to do 
quite some configuring.

My ms_tmp is at:

c:\ms4w\tmp\ms_tmp

which is the default I believe.

Also create:
c:\ms4w\tmp\ms_tmp\buttons

Normally you do not need a ms_tmp alias in httpd_chameleon.conf. I suggest 
removing it and trying with the above mentioned locations.

Hope this helps. Let us know.

Best regards,
Bart

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:36:06 -0400, David Bradshaw <dbradshaw at olver.com> 
wrote:

> Dear Users,
>
> I am VERY new to Chameleon and have a few questions.  First of all, I am
> using this on a  Windows XP and Apache platform.  I am looking to
> install MS4W and Chameleon 1.99beta.  I've downloaded from DM Solutions
> the following zip files:
> (1) http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/ms4w_0.8.zip
> (2) http://www.maptools.org/dl/ms4w/chameleon_ms4w-1.99beta1.zip
>
> I have unzipped them to my hard drive. I have been following the
> chameleon installation instructions on the Wiki site but seem to have
> trouble with tmp folders and location/permissions:
> http://www.maptools.org/chameleon/wiki/ChameleonInstallationInstructions
>
>
> Question number 1.  Where should these be "installed?"  Is there a good
> example of the file structure hierarchy? I've unzipped them to c:\ms4w
> (I placed chameleon under the folder called apps) and was able to get
> the localhost to open the demos but I get several broken links. For
> example, in the http://localhost/chameleon/samples/ when I click on ROI
> Widget Pack Sample using widgets from the ROI widget pack I get the
> following error:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ms_newsymbolobj() in
> C:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\htdocs\widgets\TrueNorth\TrueNorth.widget.php on
> line 213
>
> Again, for example, in the http://localhost/chameleon/samples/ when I
> click on Enhanced Widget Pack's Sample using XML Theme Legend I get the
> following message returned:
>
> Warning: [MapServer Error]: msSaveImage():
> (../tmp/ms_tmp/108784539119681.png) in
> C:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\htdocs\widgets\Scalebar\Scalebar.widget.php on
> line 385
>
> Fatal error: Failed writing image to ../tmp/ms_tmp/108784539119681.png
> in C:\ms4w\apps\chameleon\htdocs\widgets\Scalebar\Scalebar.widget.php on
> line 385
>
> I get a lot more error messages if I do not have the folder
> "c:\tmp\ms_tmp."  I do have this same-named folder under c:\ms4w\ and
> c:\ms4w\chameleon.
>
> Would the failed to write to /tmp/ms_tmp be a apache permissions
> problem?  It seems to access the tmp folders ok but fails to write to
> them.  Is there anything special that needs to be done in apache other
> then to create an alias in httpd.conf?
>
> Below is my httpd_chameleon.conf
>
> Alias /ms_tmp/ "../ms4w/tmp/ms_tmp/"
> <Directory "/tmp/ms_tmp">
>    Options Indexes MultiViews
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Alias /chameleon/admin "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/htdocs_admin"
> <Directory "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/htdocs_admin">
>   AllowOverride None
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Alias /chameleon/docs "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/docs/html"
> <Directory "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/docs/html">
>   AllowOverride None
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Alias /chameleon/samples "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/samples/htdocs"
> <Directory "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/samples/htdocs">
>   AllowOverride None
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Alias /chameleon "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/htdocs"
> <Directory "/ms4w/apps/chameleon/htdocs">
>   AllowOverride None
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
>
> I think this a great program with a lot of potential and I just need a
> little help getting out of the starting blocks!
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> David
>
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