[mapserver-users] Making mapserver into a WMS

[Burgholzer,Robert]

Sounds like your web server is not set up to execute CGI files in the
cgi-bin directory.  Thus, it is interpreting the request to mapserv.exe
as a download request.  Without knowing your web server (and possibly if
I did), I am unable to make suggestions as to how to alter the
configuration.

Robert W. Burgholzer
Surface Water Modeler
Office of Water Supply and Planning
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov
804-698-4405
Open Source Modeling Tools:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/

-----Original Message-----
From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
Pettis
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:56 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Making mapserver into a WMS

Hi,

I'm trying to test ms4w as a WMS for use with OpenLayers.  Went
through the tutorial at:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/howto/wms_server/#setup-a-mapfile-for-
your-wms

I created a simple mapfile according to the specs (I think).  It is
after the '===========' delimiter.  I called it with the following
url:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\map.m
ap&SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

and it asked me to download the mapserv.exe application.  Not what i
expect.  I'm pretty sure everything else is in order, because when I
call:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\map.m
ap&mode=map

I get the expected map in my browser.

Any ideas what is wrong or how I am screwing up the incantation?

Thanks,
Matt

===========
MAP

    ################
    # Map attributes
    ################
  IMAGETYPE   PNG
  EXTENT      184056.505 4809728.25 767381.245 5478975.75
  SIZE        660 495
  IMAGECOLOR  255 255 255
  FONTSET     "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/fonts/fonts.list"

  PROJECTION
    "init=epsg:26915"
  END

    ####################
    # Web settings
    ####################
  WEB
    IMAGEPATH   "C:/ms4w/Apache/htdocs/tmp/"
    IMAGEURL    "/tmp/"
    METADATA
        "wms_title"           "WMS Demo Server"
        "wms_onlineresource"  "http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?"
    END
  END

    ####################
    # State
    # Background shows through missing precincts to show where no
votes will be coming from
    ####################
  LAYER
    NAME              "state"
    METADATA
        "wms_title"           "state"
    END
    CONNECTIONTYPE    postgis
    CONNECTION        "user=postgres dbname=gisvote password=postgres"
    DATA              "the_geom from shp_state"
    STATUS            default
    TYPE              polygon

    CLASS
      NAME            "state"
      COLOR           200 200 200
    END

  END # Layer state

END
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