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I have a MapServer version 7* installed on Linux, to serve maps to a website. It worked well until recently, but now it's not serving maps anymore and can't figure out why. When I check ps aux, the mapserv service seeems to be running, the webpage requests are valid and are sent out as they should, and the data that mapserver uses - the maps - have stayed the same.

I wanted to login to MapServer but now, there is another problem - MapServer apparently has a password, which I did not get when I took over the project. Password is lost, but is needed to restart the service afaik. Is there any way to recover the password? How do I fix the issue with MapServer not serving maps?

*It's an old project I took over, legacy code, that's why we kept the 7.4.4 version, or else everything would have to be changed.

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  • Sounds like a permissions issue. The user account running mapserv doesn't have permissions to see the data. Did a user account get deleted perhaps. You should be able to change permissions using sudo.
    – nmtoken
    Jan 12 at 13:41
  • User account has not changed, mapserver had ben serving maps prior to this just fine. Sudden change does not come from changed code, permissions, even updated. It has been all the same, up and running, until that point when maps just stopped showing up.
    – mxsx
    Jan 30 at 10:24
  • To the maps show up when making the request locally, outside of the web application?
    – nmtoken
    Jan 30 at 12:13
  • I found the error, it's "msLoadMap(): Unable to access file." which does seem like a permission issue, since the files do exist. Local request works, however the files also have all r & x permissions enabled.
    – mxsx
    Jan 30 at 14:03
  • EDIT: I found the error, it's "msLoadMap(): Unable to access file." which does seem like a permission issue, since the files do exist. Local request (edit) is refused. Files have all r & x permissions enabled. When I make local request it says: Failed to connect to localhost port 8080: Connection refused
    – mxsx
    Jan 30 at 14:20

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