Availibility on NT

[rob]

Beware!

NT's "at" is very broken if you install IE 5.0 on the server.

--rob

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Nebert <ddnebert at usgs.gov>
To: <bfischer at usgs.gov>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Availibility on NT


> I don't think you can do this on either platform because
> the relationship of the template, the .map file, and the mapserv
> executable are all well-known in a web server. It might be possible
> but you might have to dig in code to find the connections.
>
> I am running mapserver both on Linux and NT and pound for pound
> the Linux service seems a bit faster. On either one you will need
> to schedule garbage collection (literally deleting GIFs/PNGs made
> as requests in your scratch directory). I find this easier with
> cron than the "at" scheduler of NT.
>
> Doug.
>
> bfischer at usgs.gov wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> >      I am a new user to mapserver.  I have a couple of initial
questions.
> > I have to make a decision about whether to develop my application on NT
or
> > UNIX.  Has anyone ran into any problems using the NT port of mapserver?
I
> > was also wondering if you have to have the application on the web
portion
> > of the server or can you just keep it on the file system and use path
> > names.  Like this
> >
file:///M:/00106/web_watershed/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=M:/00106/web_watersheds/b
asins.map
> >
> >      I tried this on the NT and it did not work.  Maybe I am not doing
it
> > right, but it doesn't seem to like the drive letter in the path.
> >
> > any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> >
> > Brian Fischer
> > USGS WRD
> > Mounds View, MN
>
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