[maplab-users] Problem with MapLab

[Paul Spencer]

Geoff, the error is specifically a permissions problem.  PHP runs as the 
web server's user.  You need to give the web server's user permission to 
read/write the config directory, all directories above it, and 
read/write on the files themselves.  I'm not sure exactly how IIS works 
but I believe that it runs as a service on windows and the service is 
started as a specific user (IUSR_<computername> by default, I think). 
You can find out the user in several ways, but probably the easiest is 
to check the web service in the services control panel applet and it 
will tell you what user the service is started as.   Then you can add 
specific privileges for that user for the required paths.

Cheers,

Paul

Geoffrey Rowland wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I installed MapLab recently and have encountered some errors.   If I few 
> installation information, it shows everything has been installed okay.  
> However if I try to open the XML config tool, i get the following warnings
> 
> *Warning*: fopen(../config/gmapfactory.xml): failed to open stream: 
> Permission denied in 
> *D:\wkdir\site\wnv\maplab\htdocs\common\appcontext\appcontext.php* on 
> line *553*
> 
> *Warning*: fopen(../config/maplab.xml): failed to open stream: 
> Permission denied in 
> *D:\wkdir\site\wnv\maplab\htdocs\common\appcontext\appcontext.php* on 
> line *553*
> 
> I should note that I am running this on a Windows system using IIS 5.  
> Anyone have any idea what is causing this?  I can open the xml files 
> fine through the web by themselves....so I'm guessing it's some sort of 
> problem with php trying to open the xml file?
> 
> Thanks,
> Geoff
> 
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