Installation problem

Dave McCormick mac at MACKRACKIT.COM
Mon Mar 13 19:30:47 EST 2006


The error log does not show anything relating to this.  The access log shows
"GET /gis/cgi-bin/mapserv HTTP/1.1" 304-




On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:28:00 -0500, Doyon, Jean-Francois
<Jean-Francois.Doyon at CCRS.NRCAN.GC.CA> wrote:

>"mapserv" is the CGI, therefore the PHP configuration has no bearing on it.
>
>Look in apache's "error_log" to see if anything shows up when you make a
>request to the CGI?
>
>Normally, you should see the same message in your browser that you would see
>from the command line (i.e. "QUERY_STRING not set ...").
>
>Since you don't presumably some error occurs, and hopefully it shows up in
>apache's error log file.
>
>J.F.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
>Behalf Of Dave McCormick
>Sent: March 13, 2006 11:14 AM
>To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Installation problem
>
>Hi,
>
>I am using Mandrake 10, Apache 2.2 , PHP 4.4.2.  Following the instructions
>from here http://ms.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/compiling_on_unix and here
>http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/verboselinuxinstall.
>
>When I get to the end and test "./mapserv" the correct message returns.
>
>When I test on a browser "http://yourhostname.com/cgi-bin/mapserv" I recieve
>"download program as file?".
>
>I imagine the proplem is in my php setup, but after four times of setting
>things up (reinstall apache, php, etc, I still have the same problem.
>
>Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong.
>
>Thanh you,
>Dave



More information about the mapserver-users mailing list