MapOfLondon solved problems caused by missing dbf file

Posted by on 18 Mar 2008 in Activity log

Thanks to Greg for providing the log from the server to help me identify the problem.

MapOfLondon server throwing errors:

[error] Tue Mar 18 11:35:58 2008 - msDBFGetItemIndex(): DBASE file error. Invalid record number 281., referer: http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/imap/htdocs/

because the file imap/user/data/Agas_Feature_Wards.dbf file is missing. That file is missing because in the "create shape file" interface in the imap admin tool, I specified "Agas_Feature_Wards.shp" as the name of the shape file. When I did that, no .dbf file was generated. When I specified "Agas_Feature_Wards", then both the .shp and .dbf file are created.

This solved the problem of the never-ending back-and-forth between the page and the server, which slowed interfered with all other communication between page and server (e.g. get info on clicked point).

This entry was posted by Stewart and filed under Activity log.