[Mapserver-users] Re: data/mapfile organization advice sought

Dylan Keon keon@nacse.org
Tue, 13 May 2003 07:35:53 -0700


>>>Note that for security reasons the DATA statement is *not*
>>
>>scriptable by 
>>
>>>default any more. You have to put "DATAPATTERN <regex>" somewhere in 
>>>your MapFile. <regex> is a regular expression; only DATA-pathnames 
>>>agreeing with that expression are allowed after that. When you leave 
>>>DATAPATTERN out, all scripted DATA calls will be silently ignored.
>>
>>woo hoo! methinks this is what I want. Thank Jan.

DATAPATTERN is new in 3.7.  See the Wiki guide at 
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MigrationGuide

This post has more info, too:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0302/msg00795.html


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