[maplab-users] Map file temp image path over ridden or ignored

[Brian Linneker]

Dear Maplab list

I think Maplab is potentially of great utility and very useful for rapid 
project generation and we would very much like to use it if we could only 
overcome one slight problem (possible bug?) related to the generation of 
the main map image file, which is not present in the specified temporary 
directory.  

The installation we have seems to work fine for viewing map files 
(Windows 200 and XP, Apache 1 and 1, PHP 4.3.4, Mapserver 40.2 using the 
corresponding php_mapscript_402.dll).  Using the setup outside of Maplab 
seems to generate the image in the appropriately specified directory and 
is accessible by the simple php script we write outside of MapLab and is 
viewable on the web.

However, with the same temporary image path and image url specified in 
the MapLab confuration as in the map file, when I generate a project 
using MapLab modules and read the same map file the program seems to run 
ok and images are generated somewhere (mysteriously not sure where - 
sessions?) but not in the map file specified web accessible temporary 
image path folder.

The map file specified image path seems to be over ridden in the map file 
and in the maplab configuration file, during and after project 
production.  However, this is not the case for the legend and other 
images which are written to the appropriate temporary image path 
directory fine and web viewable.  

Despite the generation of the main map images by MapLab during and after 
project construction the result is that I can only view MapLab generated 
project images on the server machine and not on any other machine 
connecting to it, as it is not generated in the specified web accessible 
server directory along with the legend images.

I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience to this? and 
would very much appreciate any advice as to a possible workround to this 
most crucial of problems since it renders a MapLab generated project web 
unusable.

All the best 

Brian Linneker

CISAS Nicaragua