Hello Steve, Mapserver fails by just scanning the mapfile. Did fetch the 5.4_rc1 and installed it. But same behaviour as with the 5.4_beta.
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv -v MapServer version 5.4.0-rc1 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE [Thu Apr 9 08:13:06 2009].548952 loadHashTable(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (FILTER):(line 128) [Thu Apr 9 08:13:06 2009].549088 msFreeMap(): freeing map at 0x18c51b0. Did cut and paste your filter suggestion into the Mapfile but same result. I'am back in the office on 15th of April. Thanks for your effort. Regards Heiko > > LAYER > NAME 'psc' > ... > VALIDATION > filter '^orbitnr=[0-9]{1,5}$' > END > ... > END > > > You can set a far more general pattern (e.g. '.' matches anything) but I > recommend against it. The corrected MAPFILE: MAP NAME WELT CONFIG "MS_ERRORFILE" "/tmp/ms_error.txt" DEBUG 5 STATUS ON #SIZE 647 320 SIZE 800 400 IMAGETYPE PNG24 IMAGECOLOR 240 240 240 SHAPEPATH "data" #EXTENT -180 -89.8 180 83.623596 EXTENT -180 -90 180 90 UNITS DD WEB IMAGEPATH "images" IMAGEURL "images" MINSCALE 50000 MAXSCALE 400000000 METADATA "wms_title" "Example WMS Server" "wms_onlineresource" "http://kahlo1/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=heiko1.map&" "wms_srs" "epsg:4326 epsg:32661 epsg:32761 epsg:4308 epsg:3413 epsg:3575 epsg:0815 epsg:0816" END END PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END <snip>removed not needed layers for readability<snap> LAYER NAME "PSC" CONNECTIONTYPE POSTGIS OPACITY 30 STATUS ON METADATA "wms_title" "psc" END PROJECTION "init=epsg:4326" END CONNECTION "user=foo password=fum dbname=fei host=kahlo1" DATA "geocenter from scia_psc" VALIDATION FILTER '.' <--- Line 128 END FILTER "orbitnr=3456" TYPE POINT CLASS COLOR 250 10 10 SYMBOL "circle" SIZE 7 END END # Layer END # Ende Map _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users