[maplab-users] Error: MapScript Not Found - configuration problem?

[Paul Spencer]

Vincent ... can you try removing mapscript from the php.ini and see what 
happens?  I suspect this is the problem and we will work to correct it.

Cheers

Paul Spencer
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group

Vincent Schut wrote:

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>refering my last mail about the mapscript detection being solved... This 
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>Any clue?
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>mapscript is loaded in php.ini
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>the phpinfo.php shows a mapscript section
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>tht php section in the maplab info.phtml says that mapscript was loaded into 
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>but mapscript is *not* detected in the maplab section...
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>whyowhyowhy???
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>Cheers Vincent.
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>On Monday 08 July 2002 13:39, Paul Spencer wrote:
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>>Vincent, thanks for trying out MapLab.
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>>Please note that for PHP 4.1.2 there is a bug in the ImageTypes() call
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>>that causes PHP not to return GIF as a valid image format even if your
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>>GD library was built with GIF support.  Apparently GIF will work.  This
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>>bug is fixed in PHP 4.2.1 along with several others of relevance to the
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>>next release of MapLab.  You are encouraged to upgrade to 4.2.1 if
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>>possible and practical.
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>>php_mapscript.so needs to be copied into the PHP extensions directory.
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>> You can determine this by typing `php-config --extension-dir` at a
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>>shell prompt.  One caveat.  This gives you the default path that PHP
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>>looks for.  This can be changed in your php.ini file (likely in
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>>/etc/httpd/conf but you can see the php.ini that is being used if you
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>>load a phpinfo page), so you can also check there to see if you have a
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>>line similar to `extension_dir = /some/path`.  If this line is in your
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>>php.ini and not commented out, then you should place mapscript there.
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>>In your configuration file, you should just put the name
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>>php_mapscript.so.  No path is required and in fact it won't work if you do.
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>>For MapServer, you should upgrade to 3.6.2 if possible.  If you are
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>>using mapserver from cvs, you can get it using cvs update -r
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>>rel-3-6-0-beta1 (yes, this is the branch name), otherwise you may have
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>>to wait for a formal release of 3.6.2.  (Version 3.6.1 will work with
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>>your current version of MapLab, the new version is required for the
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>>latest MapLab to be released today I hope).
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>>A simple test for determining if MapScript is set up properly is to
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>>create a new php page somewhere in your web root:
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>>dl("MapScript");
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>>phpinfo();
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>>?>
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>>When you access this page, you should see no errors at the top and a
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>>MapScript section about 2/3rds of the way down.
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>>Please try this and get back to us.
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>>Cheers,
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>>Paul Spencer
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>>Vincent Schut wrote:
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>>>Got things running - a bit. Now I stumbled into the following error: in
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>>>the info window, after configuring all things 'properly', in the
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>>>MapScript Information section, I get the following error: MapScript Not
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>>>Found - configuration problem? However, later on it says that the
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>>>mapscript extension was loaded correctly into php. I tried filling in the
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>>>entire path to the extension instead of just php_mapscript.so in the
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>>>config field for maplab, without any difference. Should I have (a copy
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>>>of) mapscript in a special place to run maplab? Or is something else
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>>>wrong?
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>>>All other values are OK (green crosses), except everything in the ms
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>>>information section. The image types in this section (of course) also show
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>>>a red cross.
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>>>System is mandrake linux, php 4.1.2 (as cgi), mapserver 3.6.
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