WFS GetFeature request with OGR output fails

[jccartwright]

I'm trying to use the OGR ouput as described in http://mapserver.org/output/ogr_output.html.

The GetCapabilities request works and shows the CSV as a ResultFormat. However, the GetFeature request returns the following error suggesting that the IMAGEPATH directory is not being used:

<ServiceException code="NoApplicableCode" locator="mapserv">

msOGRWriteFromQuery(): General error message. Failed to open result file &#39;/tmp/4ec3e8bc_6069_0/result.csv&#39;.

</ServiceException>

Sample request: ​http://mapserver.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/basicworld?SERVICE=WFS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetFeature&typename=countries&maxfeatures=10&outputformat=CSV

Mapfile contains:

OUTPUTFORMAT

NAME "CSV" DRIVER "OGR/CSV" MIMETYPE "text/csv" FORMATOPTION "LCO:GEOMETRY=AS_WKT" FORMATOPTION "STORAGE=filesystem" FORMATOPTION "FORM=simple" FORMATOPTION "FILENAME=result.csv"

END

WEB

IMAGEPATH "/Library/WebServer/Documents/output" IMAGEURL "/output/"

... END

LAYER

NAME Countries

...

METADATA

"wfs_getfeature_formatlist" "CSV"

...

END

END

[jccartwright]

Problem has been reproduced using 6.0.1 on linux (RHEL 5.7) and MacOS 10.6

[jratike80]

I am getting the same result both with Ubuntu 10.04 and Mapserver 6.0.1 and on Windows with MS4W and Mapserver 6.0.0. By using TEMPPATH I can control the target directory but it does not make the system to work. Result is always like the error above "Failed to open result file &#39;/temppath/subdir_string/result.csv&#39;.

The temppath directory seems to be writable for Mapserver, at least I can direct MS_ERRORFILE there and I can see also that temporary .gml and .gfs files appear there if I use cascading WFS layers. I wonder if something goes wrong with creating the temporary directory under the temppath.