Opened 15 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#2958 closed defect (fixed)

Add docs for map=<anv_variable_name> in mapserv CGI URLs

Reported by: dmorissette Owned by: jmckenna
Priority: normal Milestone: 5.6 release
Component: Documentation - MapServer Version: unspecified
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: havatv

Description

There is an undocumented map=<env_variable_name> mechanism that can be used to refer to mapfiles via an environment variable instead of exposing full mapfile paths to the outside world.

This needs to be documented in the CGI docs at http://www.mapserver.org/cgi/controls.html

Example, set MY_MAPFILE in Apache's httpd.conf:

  SetEnv MY_MAPFILE "/opt/mapserver/map1/mymapfile.map"

... and then refer to it as follows in the mapserv CGI URL:

  http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=MY_MAPFILE&mode=...

Change History (1)

comment:1 by havatv, 13 years ago

Cc: havatv added
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fixed for 6.0 and trunk in r12010.

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