Tutorial broken and can use some more guidance for new 8.0 version?

[jklymak]

Expected behavior and actual behavior.

Tutorial examples no longer have what I assume are meant to be maps in them: https://mapserver.org/tutorial/example1-3.html#example1-3

Similarly, I am a completely new user, but the instructions for where to put the tutorial data and how to access from cgi are maybe outdated wrt to mapserver.conf?

I ended up installing the data in /usr/local/opt/mapserver/ms4w/ and then editing mapserver.conf to have

  MAPS
    TEST_MAPFILE "/usr/local/opt/mapserver/test/test.map"
    TUTORIAL11 "/usr/local/opt/mapserver/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map"
  END

which seems to work OK. I can also whitelist that directory and use full paths to access the examples.

[jmckenna]

thanks for reporting this @jklymak Would you mind filing this in the documentation repository? https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer-documentation/issues thanks.

[rouault]

@jmckenna Not sure if you are aware of it, but if you look at the right part of this ticket, you can see a "Transfer issue" label. That is convenient to move issues around repositories where you have sufficiently enough rights (should be OK for you in that instance)

[jmckenna]

thanks @rouault I was not aware of that, perfect, will-do now. thanks.

[jklymak]

Thanks for moving this - apologies for not realizing there is a separate repo. Transferring, however, keeps the status as closed.