Newbie having "The page cannot be found" issues with MapServer on IIS 5.1, XP (test environment)

[skiwi at spamcop.net]

Hello,

I am a newly minted enthusiast? used the MS4W package on my local  
machine with Apache, PostgreSQL+PostGIS, zigGIS, etc, etc? very happy  
(and impressed!) with the product?

IT lent me a older desktop to try making a web page, but ?internal  
standards? mean that I need to use IIS 5.1 on this ?test PC? (running  
XP) and then later IIS 6.x on the final actual server running Windows  
Server 2003? (note that I am a GIS / database guy, originally a  
geologist, so all very new to me - happy and interested to learn  
though?)

With the help of the IIS setup ?how to? on the MapServer site, I  
seemed to have everything working OK (*), the test maps (sic) I  
created on Apache ported across OK?

And then I decided to try learning something about IIS security as  
this was going to be available (via HTTPS) to the ?big bad world?  
(sic)? I stupidly did not think to / know to back up my configuration  
settings before using <iislockd.exe> - hey, I am learning! ?


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*ANYWAY*?*Now* when I go to one of my map pages the URLs look correct  
? e.g., using the simplest https://192.168.0.15/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe  
for the ?Hello World? example

However, IIS throws up a ?The page cannot be found? HTTP 404 - File not found?
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This suggests that IIS has stopped <Mapserver.exe> somehow from running??
After triple checking all the IIS settings against the guides, triple  
checking my .map and associated .html 'test' files, Googling, crawling  
all over the IIS & Mapserver sites, etc for literally 10 hours I am  
none the wiser what this setting is!!


Note that:

  ? https://192.168.0.15/phpinfo.php,  
https://192.168.0.15/chameleon/admin/main.phtml,  
https://192.168.0.15/gmap/gmap75.phtml, etc display as they 'should'?

  ? the ms_tmp directory shows the images created for the <gmap> pages  
but NOT the ones that were should have been made by ?my? *.map files ?  
suggesting it is not simply IIS not displaying the images on the page?


(*) Aside ? much as I would love to use it again, I have *never* been  
able to get phpPgAdmin, sadly, to work under IIS ? when I put in the  
(valid) log in credentials, the relevant frame on the page shows the  
same ?The page cannot be found? HTTP 404 - File not found? ? again  
presumably a security issue? if you have any tips on this, if they are  
related, etc then I would not be adverse to receiving them ? although  
I recognise this is the wrong forum?


THANKS IN ADVANCE, MUCH APPRECIATED? to be so close, know all of the  
pieces are good and then have IIS halt me in my tracks is very  
frustrating, as you can likely imagine!!



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Regards,
GREG COCKS
GIS Analyst V
gcocks<at>stoller.com
S. M. Stoller Corp
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Broomfield, CO 80021
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