[Chameleon] Information and advice on using Chameleon with ms4w

[Normand Savard]

shiva ramnarine wrote:

>hi my name is shiva ramnarine, im new to chameleon and ms4w. i am interested in mapping and plan on doing a degree in GIS. i am currently doing a computer degree and decided that doing a project along these lines would be a good idea. (not a good programmer)
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>i decided to try out chameleon and followed the instructions word for word but for some reason i cannot get my template.phtml to show. the page loads with no errors but it has no content or visible content i should say. i looked at the help files, read users comments on your site but have not been able to find anything useful. i have tried to remake the template file and the initializer file several times and all have failed. 
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>by chance do you know what the error could be? i am running windows home with sp2, i have apache and php installed and on top of that i have the ms4w and chameleon installed (along with several other chameleon type applications fist, klab, etc.)
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>to be honest i tried using the fist application first but had the same problem of my maps not showing. in the case of chameleon, nothing is showing.
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Shiva,

Which version of Chameleon and ms4w did you install?  Do you have any 
PHP errors?  In order to display the PHP errors you have to edit the 
php.ini file in c:\ms4w\apache\cgi-bin:

set the errors reporting to be:
error_reporting  =  E_ALL

set the errors logging on:
log_errors = On

set the errors logging file name to be:
error_log="c:\tmp\phperrors.log"

Verify the error messages in this file above.

Norm