Well it is still not working i got the itasca3.5 demo the demo_init produces this on mac osX Lucida GrandemsLoadMap(): General error message. Undefined symbol "symbols/ctyhwy.gif" in class 0 of layer roads. and demo.html produces msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. Illegal mapfile name. This tmp directory has to have write permissions but for who? i gave it user www rwx group www rwx others r x maybe i need user nobody i dont't know how httpd deals with its www documents? On maandag, juni 10, 2002, at 02:04 , Pushkar Pradhan wrote: I don't think there is problem in demo_init.html but in the mapfile : SHADESET (6) means there is problem on the 6th line of your map file or on the 6th line of your shade set file, don't remember which one. MAybe you supplied illegal keywords in the files. Hi all i am finally busy with the map sever but have some troubles to set the demo up I spend now several hours to find out what is going wrong changing directories etc OS X keeps the web documents in /Library/WebServer/Documents and cgi in /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables with an script alias in httpd.conf cgi-bin this is the terminal output ./mapserv.cgi -v localhost:/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables] orangebo% ./mapserv.cgi -v MapServer version 3.5 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=TTF SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE [localhost:/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables] orangebo% i get this error from the demo_init.html msLoadMap(): Unknown identifier. (SHADESET):(6) This is in the demo_init.html < <<MapServer Demo Interface<< < <
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