[maplab-users] file picker app starting in wrong directory

[Paul Spencer]

Matt,

what concerns me is that this happened with "no change".  Although I 
believe you, I have learned from personal experience that this is almost 
never the case (but that's another story to be told over beers ;)).  I 
believe that it is highly likely that you did change something but you 
figured that it could have no possible impact on MapLab.  I think this 
is an important piece of the problem that you are experiencing because, 
although we have seen this problem in the past on Windows installs, we 
believe that problem to be corrected (it was never a problem on Linux 
AFAIK).  If we can isolate it, it may be possible to avoid the side 
effect in the future or at least document it.

Suggestions:

1. did you change any settings in php.ini (like session.auto_start)?

2. did you change any permissions anywhere (like perhaps on the config 
directory)?

Cheers,

Paul

Matt Doggett wrote:

> I've checked and tried many different valid values for file_browser_root
> and app_path in the configuration file.  No effect.
> 
> md
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: maplab-users-admin@dmsolutions.ca [mailto:maplab-users-
>>admin@dmsolutions.ca] On Behalf Of Sacha Fournier
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 9:02 AM
>>To: mdoggett@coas.oregonstate.edu
>>Cc: maplab-users@dmsolutions.ca
>>Subject: Re: [maplab-users] file picker app starting in wrong
> 
> directory
> 
>>Matt,
>>
>>This problem happen (most of the time) when the root directory (define
>>in your configuration file) is bad. Can you double check that please.
>>
>>On my side, I'll do the same test with RC5. Just to make sure....
>>
>>
>>
>>Matt Doggett wrote:
>>
>>>Well, I rebooted my server, deleted my installation of MapLab, then
>>>re-installed MapLab and I still get the same thing....the file
> 
> picker
> 
>>>app always opens the "browser" in the htdocs/common directory and I
>>>can't browse 'up' to where my mapfile is located. I even went
> 
> through
> 
>>>the steps to compile and re-install php and mapserver but to no
> 
> avail.
> 
>>> I get the same behavior in both IE (on my Win2k) and Mozilla (on my
>>>Linux) so I know it's not a browser/client thing.
>>> In addition, I can't even create a new mapfile as I get an error
> 
> (Can't
> 
>>>create "/home/mistral////test.map").
>>>
>>>So, in short, my MapLab installation is basically worthless....I
> 
> can't
> 
>>>do anything with it. I have no clue as to what's happening here.  It
>>>worked just fine on Monday. Any ideas out there?
>>>
>>>Md
>>>
>>>(RedHat8.0, Apache2.0, Mapserver 3.6.4, Php4.2.3)
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