[mapserver-users] Newby Question - hello world

Wed Jun 25 14:45:10 EDT 2008

Hi there,

in the "Beginning Mapserver" book there is an example which should only 
display a box showing "Hello Map"

Well, although I have other examples (not from that book) that do run, I 
don't get this one running ... *sigh*

The error I get is
loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (/var/www/tmp/):(line 1)

I have no clue *awk*.
I googled around but afterwards I still had no clue ...

The mapfile looks like this:

# This is our "Hello World" mapfile
NAME "Hello World"
SIZE 400 300
IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
IMAGETYPE png
EXTENT -1.0 -1.0 1.0 1.0
WEB
      TEMPLATE "/var/www/mapserver/hello/hello.html"
      IMAGEPATH "/var/www/tmp/"
      IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
END
LAYER
      STATUS default
      TYPE point
      FEATURE
           POINTS  0.00 0.00 END
           TEXT "Hello World"
      END # end feature
      CLASS
           STYLE
                COLOR 255 0 0
           END
           LABEL
                TYPE bitmap
           END
      END
END
END

The hello.html like this:

<html>
<head> <title>MapServer Hello World</title></head>
<body>
     <form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
         <input type="submit" value="Click Me">
         <input type="hidden" name="map" value="/home/mapdata/hello.map">
         <input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath" 
value="/var/www/tmp/">
     </form>
     <IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300 border=0>
</body>
</html>

Thanks in advance!
Katja