[maplab-users] Bad path in GMapFactory

[Balkanu GIS]

Hi Paul, thank you for your reply;

I added the following to httpd.conf

Alias /maplab_projects/ "c:/ms4w/apps/maplab-2.1/projects/"

- which has resolved the path problem.

I note that when a project is selected in GMapFactory, the resulting path to
the Map File always begins with a period "e.g. "./ms4w/.../bla.map" which
causes more path errors. I have to manually remove the period from the path
in order for things to work. I imagine the period is used for *nix type
directories, but on Windows it breaks things. Can anyone tell me how to
prevent this behaviour (of automatically placing a period at the beginning
of the path)?

Thanks again

Yuri

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pgs@magma.ca] 
Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 21:56
To: Balkanu GIS
Cc: maplab-users@lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [maplab-users] Bad path in GMapFactory


Hi,

the problem is that you need to create an alias in your web browser so 
that the URL /maplab_projects/ points to the physical maplab/projects 
directory on your system.

Cheers,

Paul

Balkanu GIS wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to use GmapFactory in MapLab to create a project. I am
> using Win2k and ms4w.
> 
> When I create a new project, GMapFactory has a problem with the paths.
> I create a new project using the browser but when I try to create it 
> Apache returns an error such as: "The requested URL 
> /maplab_projects/gmf_apps/capeyork/capeyork.phtml was not found on 
> this server."
> 
> There is no folder called 'maplab_projects' in my maplab folder. There
> is only a 'projects' folder. This is where the 'capeyork' project is 
> created, but then GMapFactory looks in the wrong place to find it. 
> Creating a new folder called 'maplab_projects' with identical contents 
> to the 'projects' folder (a yucky hack anyway) does not work.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this? Can anyone tell me where to find the
> offending code in the GMapFactory pages to alter? Or any other hints 
> to avoid this problem?
> 
> Yuri Banens
> 
> 
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