[maplab-users] Trouble getting (re)started

[Balkanu GIS]

Thanks Paul for your reply. Rather than search in vain for an elusive config
error or typo in httpd.conf or php.ini, I took your advice and installed
ms4w. Finally it works, hooray! 

Now I'm having some trouble displaying vector shapes through the MapLab
browser. The preview legend shows the layers as the 'broken image' icon,
meaning they can't be accessed. At first I thought it might be an OGR
problem (my layers are MapInfo TAB files) but I tested using a .SHP file I
had lying around and this also could not be accessed. 

The data files are in quite a different part of the directory structure
(i.e. c:/bla/bla/data/ instead of c:/ms4w/apps/blabla) - do you think this
could be a permissions problem where either Apache or MapServer is not being
allowed to access the files I'm pointing at in the MapFile?

Yuri

-----Original Message-----
From: maplab-users-admin@lists.maptools.org
[mailto:maplab-users-admin@lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Paul Spencer
Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 21:46
To: Balkanu GIS
Cc: maplab-users@lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [maplab-users] Trouble getting (re)started


what about trying:

http://localhost/maplab/

since you nicely set up an alias for that :)

but if you are getting just php code instead of a web page then PHP is 
not properly configured.  But it all looks right ... perhaps a small 
typo or extra space somewhere ... or an extra / somewhere?

You can also try http://www.maptools.org/ms4w/ to setup apache, php, 
mapscript and maplab in a fully preconfigured environment that *should* 
work out of the box :)

Cheers,

Paul

Balkanu GIS wrote:

> Hi all,
> I hope this doesn't sound too stupid, but:
> 
> <setup>
> Win2000 sp4
> Apache 2
> PHP 4.3.4
> MapServer 4.0
> MapLab 2.1 rc3
> </setup>
> 
> 1. I had MapLab more or less working using a bundled Apache/MySQL/PHP 
> setup called PHPDev (http://www.firepages.com.au) - but was getting 
> errors to do with the fact that PHP was being used as a module and not 
> a CGI program.
> 
> 2. After messing with the configs a little too much everything got way 
> out of hand and I decided to do clean, basic installs of the three 
> components. I downloaded and installed current versions of all three 
> components. Apache 2 is working. PHP 4.3.4 is working and phpinfo.php 
> shows MapScript information, meaning presumably that the 
> php_mapscript.dll files are being read from /php/extensions/. I have 
> tested MySQL from a CLI, but that's all.
> 
> 3. I have modified httpd.conf for MapLab with the following lines:
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php index.phtml
> 
> ##Added for MapLab
> Alias /maplab/ "C:/<path_to_htdocs>/htdocs/maplab-2.1-rc3/htdocs/"
> 
> <Directory "C:/<path_to_htdocs>/htdocs/maplab-2.1-rc3">
> 	Order allow,deny
> 	Allow from localhost
> 	DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.phtml index.php 
> </Directory>
> 
> <Directory "C:/<path_to_htdocs>/htdocs/">
> 	Order allow,deny
> 	Allow from localhost
> 	DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.phtml index.php 
> </Directory>
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> Alias /tmp/ "C:/<path_to_htdocs>/htdocs/tmp/"
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> #Added for MapScript PHP functionality
> ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
> Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php.exe"
> 
> ---end of sample---
> 
> I have also modified php.ini according to the MapScript install 
> instructions.
> 
> My problem at the moment is that opening 
> http://<servername>/maplab-2.1-rc3/htdocs/ in a browser returns only 
> the code, starting with "<?php " , rather than a rendered page. Can 
> anyone see anything obvious I'm missing? Any hints would be gratefully 
> received and acted upon.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Yuri Banens
> Balkanu GIS
> 
> 
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