Problem with Weathermap Editor

[ABX]

When I try to access the weathermap editor all I get is a blank page. No errors or anything.

[Howie]

When I try to access the weathermap editor all I get is a blank page. No errors or anything.

How about in your Apache error_log?

[ABX]

I'm using IIS 6.0 on Win2003 server. All I see in the log is:

2007-03-01 12:21:17 W3SVC1 xxx.xxx.xxxxxx GET /cacti/plugins/weathermap/editor.php - 80 - xx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+InfoPath.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200 0 0

[Howie]

I'm using IIS 6.0 on Win2003 server. All I see in the log is:

2007-03-01 12:21:17 W3SVC1 xxx.xxx.xxxxxx GET /cacti/plugins/weathermap/editor.php - 80 - xx.xxx.xxx.xxx Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+InfoPath.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200 0 0

How about in the Application event log then? I guess that's where PHP errors would end up on IIS.

[ABX]

There isn't a single event in Application log about PHP or IIS.

[Howie]

I guess you'll need install the Psychic ISAPI extension then

You could try running the editor from the command prompt, just to see if it gives anything useful. Most likely cause would be a missing (or not-enabled) GD library.

php editor.php should give you some HTML back. If it doesn't, it might give you a useful error message.

[ABX]

php editor.php
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in C:\Web\Cacti\plugins\weathermap\editor.php on line 859

[ABX]

Yay, found the problem. Thanks Howie for your time.

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If your code looks to be ok, I have found that this is often caused by the use of Short Open tags in PHP.

The full tag is
PHP Code:
<?php
but the short open tag can be used as well.
PHP Code:
<?
However, you must allow short open tags in your PHP.INI file. Look for the SHORT_OPEN_TAG directive in your PHP.INI file and set it to "1"

I hope this helps.

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IIS restart

[Howie]

Yay, found the problem. Thanks Howie for your time.

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If your code looks to be ok, I have found that this is often caused by the use of Short Open tags in PHP.

The full tag is
PHP Code:
<?php
but the short open tag can be used as well.
PHP Code:
<?
However, you must allow short open tags in your PHP.INI file. Look for the SHORT_OPEN_TAG directive in your PHP.INI file and set it to "1"

I hope this helps.

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IIS restart

Aha. I forgot about htat one. It's already fixed in the next release.

[ABX]

Another day, another problem.

I'm trying to add some images to the map, but I don't see anything once I add the image in the editor.

I'm getting the "Your background image file could not be read. Check the filename, and permissions, for imagesbackground.png" in Cacti log file.

I'm trying to search this newly created files by the editor, but there aren't any in the Cacti maps.

P.S: Solved

The editor writes the image path wrongly in the map.conf instead of images/picture.png it writes imagepicture.png.

[Howie]

P.S: Solved

The editor writes the image path wrongly in the map.conf instead of images/picture.png it writes imagepicture.png.

I'll check that. I guess it's a windows issue - \'s vs /'s and \s means something special to php. I thought I'd fixed all of those.