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<DIV>Zach,</DIV>
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<DIV>You said you configured IIS to run .map files from mapserv executable. This
is not correct (AFAIK), because the map file contains information mapserver
uses. It is NOT a script being executed by mapserv.exe. Therefore, if the .map
file is requested from the server, depending on how it is requested, it might go
wrong. IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 will sometimes throw an inappropriate "page not
found" error, if the actual problem is something to do with security.</DIV>
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<DIV>Does your "proj" directory exist? Is it worth checking permissions on
that?</DIV>
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<DIV>It might help if you listed the directories you created, and the
permissions you set on them.</DIV>
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<DIV>regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Jacob</DIV>
<DIV><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: UMN MapServer Users List
[mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed McNierney<BR>Sent: 14
January 2005 09:44<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU">MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU</A><BR>Subject:
Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Windows 2003 Standard IIS 6.0 trouble</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Zach –</DIV>
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<DIV>IIS doesn’t “let the file not be found” – it can’t find it. What is
the URL you are using to refer to your MapServer executable? Do you have a
virtual directory (if necessary) set up there? If you use the IIS
administration tool, can you browse to the mapserv.exe file and find it along
the path you expect?</DIV>
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<DIV>What is the URL you are using that triggers that error?</DIV>
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<DIV>And please ALWAYS reply to the entire list….</DIV>
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<DIV>- Ed</DIV>
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<DIV>From: Zachary Stauber [mailto:zstauber@bhinc.com] <BR>Sent: Thursday,
January 13, 2005 5:09 PM<BR>To: Ed McNierney<BR>Subject: RE:
[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Windows 2003 Standard IIS 6.0 trouble</DIV>
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<DIV>Well, I'm just trying to display the basic Itasca map they offer up on the
Mapserver site <A
href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/dload.html</A>,
I get the standard message which tells me nothing I can use to find the source
of the problem (the general check engine light of the web server world):</DIV>
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<DIV>I.
The page cannot be found<BR>The page you are looking for might have been
removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. </DIV>
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<DIV>Please try the following:</DIV>
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<DIV>Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your
browser is spelled and formatted correctly. <BR>If you reached this page by
clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link
is incorrectly formatted. <BR>Click the Back button to try another link.
<BR>A.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.<BR>Internet Information Services
(IIS)</DIV>
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<DIV>Technical Information (for support personnel)</DIV>
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<DIV>Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the
words HTTP and 404.
<BR>·
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for
topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom
Error Messages. </DIV>
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<DIV>So based on this one would think that the mapserv.exe is in the wrong place
or misspelled, but it’s in the exact same place as I have it on a Windows 2000
install that works fine, and the .map and .html files are exact copies of
those. So what this error is really telling me is that IIS 6.0 is not
letting the mapserv.exe be found or run.</DIV>
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<DIV> -Zack</DIV>
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<DIV>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Ed McNierney [mailto:ed@topozone.com]
<BR>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:56 PM<BR>To: Zachary Stauber; <A
href="mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU">MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU</A><BR>Subject:
RE: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Windows 2003 Standard IIS 6.0 trouble</DIV>
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<DIV>Zack -</DIV>
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<DIV>MapServer works just fine under Windows 2003 Standard and IIS 6.0,
and</DIV>
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<DIV>there's plenty of "proof" of that!</DIV>
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<DIV>But you do need to take the time to understand how your new tools
work</DIV>
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<DIV>rather than blaming them (or MapServer). You gave us a lot of</DIV>
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<DIV>information in your email (thanks) but you didn't say what didn't
work!</DIV>
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<DIV>What is the symptom you're seeing? What are you doing, and what is
the</DIV>
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<DIV>(unexpected) result you're getting?</DIV>
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<DIV> - Ed</DIV>
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<DIV>Ed McNierney</DIV>
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<DIV>President and Chief Mapmaker</DIV>
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<DIV>TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.</DIV>
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<DIV>73 Princeton Street, Suite 305</DIV>
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<DIV>North Chelmsford, MA 01863</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="mailto:ed@topozone.com">ed@topozone.com</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>(978) 251-4242 </DIV>
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<DIV>-----Original Message-----</DIV>
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<DIV>From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU]
On</DIV>
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<DIV>Behalf Of Zachary L. Stauber</DIV>
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<DIV>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:21 PM</DIV>
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<DIV>To: <A
href="mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU">MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Windows 2003 Standard IIS 6.0 trouble</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi, I'm using Windows 2003 Standard, and I'm trying to get
MapServ.exe</DIV>
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<DIV>to work on it. Right now I'm just trying out the Itasca
dataset. It's</DIV>
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<DIV>a permissions problem. Does anyone have a vaguely detailed process
for</DIV>
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<DIV>setting the permissions or configuring Web Access Extensions or</DIV>
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<DIV>Application Extensions (or whatever hates MapServer so much) so it
gets</DIV>
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<DIV>past the top level security junk in IIS 6.0?</DIV>
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<DIV>I have the same version, 4.4.0-beta3 working fine on a Windows XP SP2</DIV>
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<DIV>machine, with all the files in exactly the same places. The EXE and
all</DIV>
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<DIV>DLL's are in C:\InetPub\scripts\MapServer\ the C:\Proj data has a
copy</DIV>
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<DIV>of everything it's supposed to, and the Itasca data starts in</DIV>
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<DIV>C:\InetPub\wwwroot\MapServer\NCTCOG\mapserver_demos\workshop</DIV>
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<DIV>Before you ask, I set all the directories mentioned above to give</DIV>
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<DIV>WebAdmin all rights (except full control), I changed all the paths to</DIV>
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<DIV>the correct places in the "index.html" file, which shows the Itasca
map</DIV>
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<DIV>fine under Windows XP SP2, and I added a "MapServer" entry to the Web</DIV>
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<DIV>Service Extensions and added every EXE and DLL that it uses with</DIV>
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<DIV>"Allow." I also set the Web Service Extensions to "Allow" "All
Unknown</DIV>
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<DIV>CGI Extensions" by default (actually that was set when I got here).</DIV>
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<DIV>I also made the NCTCOG directory in wwwroot a virtual directory and
set</DIV>
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<DIV>"read" permission, set execute permissions to "Script and
Executables,"</DIV>
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<DIV>and created an application extension for ".map" files and set it to
the</DIV>
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<DIV>mapserv.exe executable. I also did all this for the</DIV>
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<DIV>C:\InetPub\scripts\Mapserver directory just in case.</DIV>
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<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV>What else can I do to loosen this thing up? Does anyone actually
have</DIV>
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<DIV>it working under Windows 2003 Standard? I haven't found proof of
this</DIV>
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<DIV>in over a year of back archives on this mailing list.</DIV>
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<DIV> -Zack Stauber</DIV>
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<DIV> Systems Analyst</DIV>
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<DIV> Bohannan-Huston, Inc.</DIV>
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<DIV> Albuquerque, NM</DIV>
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<DIV> USA</DIV>
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