Yes this is usually a shared library problem. Check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
environment variable is set in the apache httpd.conf file. It's not surprising 
that ogrinfo would work at the command line but ogr would fail when apache 
calls it. The apache user has a different environment.

-e

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McGraw, 
Joanne
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 1:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] OGR failing on Linux with Premature end of 
script headers

Hi all,

I am trying to load a MAP file that does a JOIN to connect a shapefile with a 
geolinked dbf.  But, when I try to load the map file in a browser from our 
Linux server, I get a "Premature end of script headers: mapserv" in the Apache 
error_log. I've read a bunch of posts to the forum and all seem to suggest that 
"Premature end of script headers" messages are usually the result of libraries 
not being loaded properly. How can I learn what library is missing or not 
properly loading? I don't get any additional message helping to identify this 
in Apache's error_log.

I've done a little testing and find that just using OGR seems to be the 
problem. I've created a simple map file with a single layer in it and set the 
following attributes:

LAYER
    NAME "ecozones"
    DATA "ecozones"

#    CONNECTION "/ms4w_1.4.0/Apache/htdocs/dev1/data/ecozones.shp"
#    CONNECTIONTYPE OGR
#    DATA "SELECT * FROM ecozones"

    :
END

In the browser, when I enter the following URL with the above definition, the 
image appears fine:
http://host/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/server_path/Apache/htdocs/map_nojoin.map&mode=map&layer=ecozones

However, if I comment the 'DATA "ecozones"' line and uncomment the lines 
referring to OGR, the image displays correctly from a Windows server; so, I'm 
fairly confident the syntax in the file is fine. But, the same map file (with a 
different path to the ecozones.shp file obviously) gives the "Premature end of 
script headers" error.

Any pointers as to how I can identify what is causing the error are greatly 
appreciated. I'm stuck!

Cheers,
jtm



Joanne T. McGraw
GIS Data Analyst / Analyste des données du SIG
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada / Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
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