Could Mapserver's Internal Server Error be caused by msEvalRegex?

Question

I try Mapserver 5.6.4 on Linux.

I've compiled Mapserver ,then put it on /cgi-bin/ direcotry. I tried to access "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv", but "500: Internal Server Error" was shown.

I saw error point, and I guessed that msEvalRegex() didn't work. So I commented out mapfile.c codes of between 5190 lines and 5202 lines. ( if(getenv("MS_MAPFILE_PATTERN")....)

Then, mapserver worked well. (I got a response "200") I don't know the reason. (Mapserver needs any other library??) Please tell me about it.

My english is very poor, sorry.

Answer 1

The mapserv binary created needs to have —rwxr-xr-x permissions to be able to execute so if needed you can change permissions using:

#chmod 755 mapserv

To test you have compiled mapserv with all appropriate options you can check the version:

#./mapserv —v

you should get an output like:

MapServer version 5.6.4 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=PDF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=FRIBIDI SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS SUPPORTS=RGBA_PNG INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE

If you get an output like this, then you know that MapServer is compiled correctly for your system; then you can move on to configuring the web service.