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

[Matt Doggett]

I'll be the first to admit that "no change" is a false statement. In
fact I was making lots of changes to a GMapFactory app that was created
using MapLab but I put in a completely different location so I could
tweak it. When I say I didn't change anything, I mean, I didn't change
any part of the MapLab installation/configuration itself, including
permissions. Also, as far as I know, I didn't change any configuration
of another app that MapLab relies on (like php.ini), that is not until I
started having problems.  I'll keep looking though. The kicker that gets
me is that I completely uninstalled Maplab (deleted the whole thing),
extracted the tarball, and went through the *exact* steps I used a
couple weeks ago to configure it then--which of course worked.
 Obviously something on the system side (not MapLab) changed. What
exactly changed, I can't tell you. Nothing major, as far as I'm
concerned. What concerns me though is that there obviously is a critical
dependency to some trivial component or setting outside of MapLab that
MapLab requires but isn't smart enough to handle gracefully (e.g. with
an error message or something).

Matt


BTW, my web server (Apache, PHP/Mapscript, MapLab, etc) is on Linux not
Windows. I just do most of my browsing from my desktop Windows
workstation.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba@magma.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 11:32 AM
> To: mdoggett@coas.oregonstate.edu
> Cc: sfournier@dmsolutions.ca; maplab-users@dmsolutions.ca
> Subject: Re: [maplab-users] file picker app starting in wrong
directory
> 
> 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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