Hi everbody,
I just spend a couple of hours trying to set up Mapserver 8.0 on Windows. To do
that, I downloaded the latest stable release from GisInternals.
I am using Apache and FastCGI as webserver.
Everything went smoothly until I tried to make Mapserver load the new needed
configuration file. It was just always claiming that it couln't load this file
("msLoadConfig(): Unable to access file."), but I had set "SetEnv
MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE" in my Apache configuration. Even setting
MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE in a global system variable did not solve the issue.
After quite a while, I found this issue on Mapserver's issue tracker:
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/issues/6411
This had not a lot to do with my issue, but I discovered the existence of
FcgidInitialEnv. Setting this variable (FcgidInitialEnv MAPSERVER_CONFIG_FILE
"C:/whereever/mapserver.conf") solved the issue.
So, is it mandatory to set FcgidInitialEnv when using Mapserver with FastCGI?
If yes, wouldn't it be good to add something to the documentation
(https://mapserver.org/mapfile/config.html).
Moreover, I spied in the ms4w 5 package. It seemed to me that they were using
FastCGI as well, but I could not find anything regarding FcgidInitialEnv, thus
my question...
Thanks a lot to anyone who would have some information regarding that.
Best regards
Michael
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