[maplab-users] Maplab frustration!

[woodbri@swoodbridge.com]

Matt,

Well, I should probably let the MapLab guys respond, because I 
haven't tried this config with maplab, but this sounds like file 
permission problems. The effective uid/gid of the httpd process needs 
to have permissions to mkdir and write to the files listed below.

If I am right this has more to do with your need to set the 
permissions correctly than it does with configuring maplab. If this 
is the case, they might need better explaination to make this clear 
in the install docs.

On 26 Mar 2003 at 17:02, Matt Doggett wrote:

> I was at first very excited about using Maplab, however, after several
> days and it *still* doesn't completely work, I'm about ready to give
> up on it.  Has anyone out there used it successfully using:
> 
> RedHat8.0
> Apache2.0
> Mapserver 3.6.4
> Php4.3.2rc1 (to fix the PHP_SELF problem) 
> 
> Has anyone else successfully installed & run maplab with this
> configuration?
> 
> I've followed all the installation instructions (to the T) but I get
> error messages on so many aspects of Maplab, it's not realistic to
> post them all, here are a few:
> 
> - Can get the initial preview of a Map but any actions on that preview
> result in a blank map. - Legend is empty in the preview. - MapBrowser
> fails miserably with "Warning: mkdir(/data/3e822b2834ef6/)
> [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory." Errors galore! -
> GMapFactory can't create a new project with the following error:
> Warning: main(/htdocs/gmapfactory/structure.php) [function.main]:
> failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
> /home/precip/www/maplab/htdocs/gmapfactory/appframeset.phtml on line
> 136
> 
> It seems I'm getting lots of path-related errors and no matter how I
> setup the configuration files, they won't go away.
> 
> md
> 
> Matt Doggett
> Spatial Climate Analysis Service
> Oregon State University
> 316 Strand Ag Hall
> Corvallis, OR 97331
> (541)737-9153
> mdoggett@coas.oregonstate.edu
> 
> 
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