[mapserver-users] Making mapserver into a WMS

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Wed Jun 4 17:24:18 EDT 2008


Matt,

Since you are using MS4W you might also want to check out the  
following ms4w add-on packages:

1) MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop
2) GMap75 PHP/MapScript Sample Application (the localhost page shows  
locally served WMS URLs)

--jeff



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Jeff McKenna
FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/



On 4-Jun-08, at 8:55 AM, Matthew Pettis wrote:

> 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.map&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.map&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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