Dear users..<br><br>I have been using mapserver 5.0.3 on fedora 9. now i am just playing with examples given in the tutorial for mapserver 5.x, unfortunately i stuck in the very first example explained in the tutorial. when i call the link<br>
<br><a href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/mapfiles/sampletest/kerala.map&layer=kerala&mode=map">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/mapfiles/sampletest/kerala.map&layer=kerala&mode=map</a><br><br>
i faced the following error message<br><br>msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. (/mapfiles/sampletest/kerala.map)
<br><br>i know i have done some silly mistake related to permission or path. I checked everything like permission and path, but i just cannot make it work.<br><br>This my Map file for your kind perusal<br><br>Map<br>IMAGETYPE PNG<br>
NAME "Gods own country"<br>SIZE 400 300<br>IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255<br>EXTENT -97.238976 41.619778 -82.122902 49.385620<br>SHAPEPATH "/var/www/html/mapfiles/sampletest/data/"<br><br>WEB<br>IMAGEPATH "/tmp/ms_tmp/"<br>
IMAGEURL "/ms_tmp/"<br>END<br><br>PROJECTION<br> "proj=laea"<br> "ellps=clrk66"<br> "lat_0=45"<br> "lon_0=-100"<br> #<br> # Alternatively, you can specify an EPSG code.<br>
# "init=epsg:2163"<br> #<br> END<br><br>LAYER<br> NAME "kerala"<br> TYPE POLYGON<br> STATUS DEFAULT<br> DATA "/var/www/html/mapfiles/sampletest/data/kerala_districts.shp"<br><br>
PROJECTION<br> "init=epsg:4326"<br> END<br><br> CLASS<br> STYLE<br> COLOR 232 232 232<br> OUTLINECOLOR 32 32 32<br> END<br> END<br>END<br><br><br>presumably , i am doing something stupid that i cannot see what<br>
<br>can anybody please help me out.... moreover am a newbie<br><br>help nd suggestion will be appreciated....<br><br>Thanks<br>kapilmanoj<br>