tomcat cgi problem

[Christian Schroeder]

Hello David,

you need to send some parameters to the mapserv.exe in order to 
introduce it to do something. One of them is the configuration mapfile.
When I started with the UMN Mapserver I installed the Demo Workshop 
application avaliable at the downloadpage 
(http://maps.dnr.state.mn.us/mapserver_demos/workshop.zip).

I think this is a good example which illustrates how mapserv.exe works 
and should give you an idea of how you can use it for your purpose.

The output you sent shows that Mapserv.exe seems to work properly, and 
if you configured tomcat to run cgi, there should be no problems. But I 
have not tested the cgi module on tomcat yet.

Bye,
Christian


David Hunter schrieb:

>I am a newbie trying to set up MapServer as a CGI program under Tomcat 5.0
>and Win2000.  I copied the contents of the Mapserver bin directory to
>Tomcat 5.0/webapps/ROOT/WEB_INF/cgi/ and did all the other steps to enable
>CGI in Tomcat.  When I do http://localhost:8080/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?
>nothing appears in the browser, and i get this error in the log file:
>
>runCGI (stderr):Unrecognized character \x90 at C:\Tomcat 5.0
>\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\cgi\mapserv.exe line 1.
>
>I searched the archives here, and somebody mentioned testing mapserv.exe at
>the command line with the -v switch.  That returns this:
>
>MapServer version 4.4.2 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=PDF
>OUTPUT=SWF
>SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT
>SUPPORTS
>=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER INPUT=POSTGIS
>INPUT=ORACLESP
>ATIAL INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE
>
>
>  
>