[Mapserver-users] Windows installation error

[Ed McNierney]

Justin -

Remember that mapserv.exe will run under whatever user context is
specified for your Web server, so if you change your personal PATH
settings it won't make any difference to mapserv.exe.

Don't feel bad - I think this is by far the most common Windows setup
problem!

	- Ed 



Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Riggert [mailto:justinriggert at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 6:45 PM
To: Ed McNierney; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Windows installation error

Well that takes care of that.  What is strange is that I tried putting
the lib contents into Winnt/System32 and also tried adding the lib
directory into the PATH environment variable.  Both were not working for
me.  I must have been doing something wrong because I tried putting the
lib contents directly into the cgi-bin directory and it works like a
charm.

Thanks for the response,
Justin


>From: "Ed McNierney" <ed at topozone.com>
>To: "Justin Riggert" 
><justinriggert at hotmail.com>,<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
>Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Windows installation error
>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 18:09:40 -0400
>
>Justin -
>
>Make sure zlib.dll is either in the same directory as mapserv.exe or 
>somewhere on the system path where it can be found.
>
>	- Ed
>
>
>Ed McNierney
>President and Chief Mapmaker
>TopoZone.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu
>[mailto:mapserver-users-admin at lists.gis.umn.edu] On Behalf Of Justin 
>Riggert
>Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:42 PM
>To: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>Subject: [Mapserver-users] Windows installation error
>
>I am installing MapServer 4.2.0 onto windows and am running into the 
>same error on both XP and Win2K.  Here are my installation steps:
>
>1) Install Apache 1.3.31 in default location (C:\Program Files\Apache 
>Group\Apache).  I am using localhost as the server and domain names.
>2) Unzip the MapServer 4.2 binary package.  Copy the proj directory 
>into C:, copy mapserv.exe into the Apache cgi-bin directory, and add 
>the lib directory to the sysem PATH.  Also tried adding bin directory 
>to system PATH.
>
>When I use the following URL in both IE and Netscape - 
>http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?
>I get a "500 Internal Server Error" in the browser, and Apache error 
>log says "Premature end of script headers: c:/program files/apache 
>group/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe"
>
>If I try mapserv -v from the command line I successfully get the 
>version number and some other information.  Is there anyhting obvious 
>on what is going on here?
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Justin
>
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