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Hello.<br>
<br>
I try to run an example i found in B. Kropla's book (Beginning
MapServer - Open Source GIS Development) in windows XP.<br>
I create a hello.html template which is placed in htdocs folder of the
Apache server.<br>
Also, hello.map is placed in htdocs folder as well.<br>
The contents of hello.html are:<br>
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<html><br>
<head><title>MapServer Hello
World</title></head><br>
<body><br>
<form method=POST
action="\cgi-bin\mapserv.exe"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Click
Me"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="map"
value="hello.map"><br>
<input type="hidden"
name="map_web_imagepath" value="c:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\"><br>
</form><br>
<IMG SRC="[img]" width=400 height=300
border=0><br>
</body><br>
</html><br>
<br>
The conents of hello.map are:<br>
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#This is our "Hello World" mapfile<br>
NAME "Hello_world"<br>
SIZE 400 300<br>
IMAGECOLOR 249 245 186<br>
IMAGETYPE png<br>
EXTENT -1.00 -1.00 1.00 1.00<br>
WEB<br>
TEMPLATE "c:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\hello.html"<br>
IMAGEPATH "c:\ms4w\Apache\htdocs\tmp\"<br>
IMAGEURL "\tmp\"<br>
END<br>
LAYER<br>
STATUS default<br>
TYPE point<br>
FEATURE<br>
POINTS 0.0 0.0 END<br>
TEXT "Hello World"<br>
END<br>
<br>
CLASS<br>
STYLE<br>
COLOR 255 0 0<br>
END<br>
LABEL<br>
TYPE bitmap<br>
END<br>
END<br>
END<br>
END<br>
<br>
<br>
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When i click on "Click me" button i get the message msLoadMap() Unable
to access file hello.map.<br>
Furthemore,when i move hello.map in cgi-bin folder of the Apache server
and change the corresponding line in hello.html<br>
to <input type="hidden" name="map" value="cgi-bin\hello.map"> <br>
i get the message <br>
<pre>loadWeb(): Unknown identifier. Parsing error near (C):(line 1)
Furthemore,when i open hello.html instead of getting just the click-me button i get the following:
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<form method="post" action="\lang1033\f1" \\\lang1032\f0=""
cgi-bin\lang1033\f1\\\lang1032\f0="" mapserv.exe="">\par
\lang1033\f1 \lang1032\f0 <input value="Click Me" type="submit">\par
\lang1033\f1 \lang1032\f0 <input name="map"
value="\lang1033\f1 cgi-bin\\\lang1032\f0 hello.map" type="hidden">\par
\lang1033\f1 \lang1032\f0 <input name="map_web_imagepath"
\lang1033\f1=""
value="\lang1033\f1 c\lang1032\f0 :\\ms4w\\Apache\\htdocs\\tmp\\\lang1033\f1 "
\lang1032\f0="" type="hidden">\par
\lang1033\f1 \lang1032\f0 </form>
\par
\lang1033\f1 \lang1032\f0 <img
src="cid:part1.06040803.00090108@gmail.com" border="0" height="300"
width="400">\par
\par
\par
}
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I have read other mail on the same problem but i could not figure it
out.<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
Nikos Papadakis<br>
Department of Computer & Communications Engineering<br>
Univercity of Thessaly.<br>
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