[Mapserver-users] GIS Student needs help

Fri Mar 14 19:49:22 EST 2003

George,

Also you have to change src attribute to use your mapserver program with your platform, e.g.

<img .... src="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=.....">

because in Windows, mapserver program is mapserv.exe. Demo setting is for *n*x.

Krung

>George,
>
>For starters, your LAYER line is commented out.  Remove the leading # 
>from LAYER.
>
>--Dylan
>
>
>George McCown wrote:
>> I've successfully installed the demo map server on apache 2.
>> Now I want to learn how to make single layers but I need more help
>> than what the Tutorial shows.
>> 
>> data file: E:\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\hall\data\states.shp
>> mapserv(3.6): E:\Apache Group\Apache2\cgi-bin
>> single.map and single.html: E:\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\hall
>> 
>> ********* Single.html**********************
>> 
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>single</title>
>> </head>
>> 
>> <body>
>> <h1>SINGLE LAYER</h1>
>> 
>> <img border="1" src="="/cgi-bin/mapserv35?map/hall/single.map&mode=map">
>> <p>why is it mapserv35?map not just mapserv.exe?</p>
>> 
>> </body>
>> 
>> </html>
>> 
>> ************single.map*****************
>> NAME test
>> EXTENT -127.92 49.47 -77.05 23.66
>> SIZE 400 300
>> SHAPEPATH "data"
>> #LAYER # start of the "states" layer object
>>   NAME "states"