[mapserver-users] MapFile[beginner]

[Birgit Woods]

Hi, I have gotten the demo up and running, but I can't
generate my own map.  I think the problem is somewhere
in my mapfile.  The maps are not being generated in
the temporary directory for one thing. My units are in
decimal degrees and I have written in the extents. I
got the extents from ArcMap. 
Also, my original map was an .mxd written in ArcMap.
Was it really necessary for me to change it to a .gif?
Because I first had to convert it to a bitmap image
and then to a gif with photoshop.  Seems like a lot of
extra work, and I'm not sure if the extents of the
image still qualify, having gone through different
conversions.
I have attached my mapfile. If someone could quickly
take a look at it, I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks, B.   

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# Start of map file
######################################################################################
NAME Coastlines
STATUS ON
SIZE 775 563
EXTENT -175.8686783943 -2.098642442 -46.7451486479 92.417822442 #minx miny maxx maxy taken from ArcMap
UNITS dd
SHAPEPATH "C:\temp\MapServer\FromJoost" #my shapefile NAMCOAST is located in this file
IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
#FONTSET "c:/Inetpub/wwwroot/digilib/mapserver/fonts/fonts.txt"
#SYMBOLSET "c:/inetpub/wwwroot/digilib/mapserver/symbols/symbols.txt"
# IMAGETYPE GIF

######################################################################################
# Start of web interface definition (including WMS enabling metadata)
######################################################################################
WEB
  HEADER demo_header.html
  TEMPLATE InitializingWebpage.cfm
  MINSCALE 100000
  MAXSCALE 3250000
  IMAGEPATH "C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs\tmp\"  
# Path to temporary directory for writing temporary files and images
  IMAGEURL "/tmp/"  
# Base URL for IMAGEPATH. This is the URL that will take the web browser to IMAGEPATH to get the images.
END

#QUERYMAP
#  SIZE 200 200
#  STATUS ON
#  STYLE HILITE
#  COLOR 255 0 0
#END

######################################################################################
# Start of legend
######################################################################################
LEGEND
  STATUS ON
  KEYSIZE 18 12
  LABEL
    TYPE BITMAP
    COLOR 0 0 89
    SIZE small
  END
END

######################################################################################
# Start of Reference Map
######################################################################################
REFERENCE
  STATUS ON
  IMAGE "C:\temp\MapServer\FromJoost\Untitled.gif"  #map image
  SIZE 775 563
  EXTENT -169.999427 7.205280 -52.614400 83.113900   #minx miny maxx maxy of the individual shapefile or layer in ArcMap
  COLOR -1 -1 -1
  OUTLINECOLOR 255 0 0
END


######################################################################################
# Start of scalebar 
######################################################################################
SCALEBAR
  IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
  LABEL
    COLOR 0 0 0
    SIZE SMALL    
  END
STYLE 1
  SIZE 80 2
  COLOR 0 0 0
  UNITS METERS
  INTERVALS 1
  TRANSPARENT ON
  STATUS ON
END


######################################################################################
# Start of layer definitions
######################################################################################

LAYER # North American Coastlines
  NAME NAMCOAST
  TYPE LINE
  STATUS ON
  DATA C/temp/MapServer/FromJoost/NAMCOAST.shp  #Full file name of spacial data to process
  CLASS
	#NAME 'NAMCOAST'
	COLOR 225 0 255
	OUTLINECOLOR 0 0 0
  END #CLASS
END #LAYER

#  METADATA
#     WMS_TITLE "North American Coastline"
#     WMS_ABSTRACT "North American Coastline shapefile."
#     WMS_SRS "EPSG:26915"
#  END

END # Map File