[mapserver-users] loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near(:):(line 1)

Tue May 20 12:58:40 EDT 2008

For testing map files, I like to go the simplest route and use mode=map.

I took the map file text below (not including "test.map" because that
would break the file) and I pasted it into a new map file.  

I called it using the URL:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?mode=map&map=d:\test.map 

and it returned a yellow rectangle with "Hello World" and a one pixel
red dot in the middle of it.  

There appears to be nothing wrong with your map file.  I am running MS4W
2.2.6

David.

PS.  This line from your html page looks a little funky:
 <input type="hidden" name="map_web" value="imagepath
C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\ imageurl /tmp/">

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	Subject: [mapserver-users] loadWeb(): Unknown identifier.
Parsing error near(:):(line 1)

	Unfortunately the error insists.
	I have tried every advice you gave me but stiil nothing.
	All the modifications i did are:
	1)Check the orientation of slashes and i actually tried every
possible orientation.
	2)Placed the MAP keyword in the first line of .map file.
	3)Tried an older version of MapServer (although there is nothing
different according to the site...).

	Perhaps i should try it on linux?
	Does it make any difference at all?

	test.map

	MAP
	    NAME "TEST!!!"
	    SIZE 400 300
	    IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186
	    IMAGETYPE png
	    EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00

	    WEB
	           TEMPLATE "C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\test.html"
	           IMAGEPATH "C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp"
	           IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
	    END

	    LAYER
	           STATUS default
	           TYPE point
	           FEATURE
	                   POINTS 0.0 0.0 END
	                   TEXT "Hello World"
	           END
	           CLASS
	                   STYLE
	                       COLOR 255 0 0
	                   END
	                   LABEL
	                       TYPE bitmap
	                   END
	           END
	       END
	END

	test.html

	<html>
	<head><title>MapServer Hello World</title></head>

	<body>

	<form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
	  <input type="submit" value="Click">
	  <input type="hidden" name="MAP"
value="C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\test.map">
	  <input type="hidden" name="map_web" value="imagepath
C:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\ imageurl /tmp/">
	</form>
	<IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300 border=0>

	</body>
	</html>

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