Does Mapserver 4.8.3 work with windows 2000 and IIS 5

[Barend Köbben]

HI,

In my experience, you also need to:

-Go to IIS Manager
- Open "Web Service Extensions"
- Allow cgi-bin/mapserv.exe 
- Restart web server

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Barend Köbben
International Institute for Geo-information 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of rock well
> Sent: 12 July 2006 19:18
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Does Mapserver 4.8.3 work 
> with windows 2000 and IIS 5
> 
> Hey andrew thanks, for the reply, i guess its the IIS 5 
> issue. When i copied the mapserv and the required dlls to 
> 2003 with IIS 6 i was able to generate the map with no issues. 
>  
> Thanks for your time
> kris
> 
> Andrew Krakowski <andrew at REFRACTIONS.NET> wrote:
> 
> 	Hi Kris,
> 	
> 	Have you been able to generate the "No query 
> information to decode. 
> 	QUERY_STRING is set, but empty." message?
> 	
> 	Have you read the online IIS MapServer instructions? 
> There are a couple 
> 	you can find.
> 	
> 	I'm not sure the difference between IIS 5 and 6 but 
> I've succeeded with 
> 	MapServer 4.8.3 working on IIS 6.0 on XP.
> 	
> 	Create a cgi-bin directory in your Inetpub directory 
> and copy the 
> 	contents of the ms4w\Apache\cgi-bin directory into it.
> 	
> 	In IIS add this directory as a virtual directory to 
> your web-site. 
> 	Right-click Properties under the cgi-bin Virtual 
> Directory and select 
> 	Scripts and Executables for Executables permission in 
> the Virtual 
> 	Directory Tab.
> 	
> 	When you right click the mapserv.exe file in IIS and 
> select Browse in 
> 	IIS you should get the above message.
> 	
> 	Hope that helps; if not let me know.
> 	Andrew
> 	
> 	
> 	rock well wrote:
> 	> Hi all, i have posted this question earlier but had 
> to luck ..... i have been trying to configure mapserver 
> -4.8.3 on a windows 2000 machine with IIS 5. I tried 
> different options like just having the basic libraries like 
> proj,GD, regex. When i try to generate a map i always get a 
> 	> 
> 	> CGI Error 
> 	> The specified CGI application misbehaved by not 
> returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did 
> return are:
> 	> 
> 	> i tried it from php mapscript, from a normal html 
> file same result .....
> 	> 
> 	> i dont know what wrong am i doing .... if anyone have 
> configured mapserver with this configuration can you please 
> suggest me, or any information might help ...
> 	> 
> 	> Thanks a lot for your time,
> 	> kris
> 	> 
> 	> 
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