<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Listers,<div><br></div><div>I am a beginner user of Mapserver. I installed Mapserver and Apache2 successfully. I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.</div><div><br></div><div>I downloaded the tutorial data and tried to view Example 1, but I was unable to do so. I got the error for the following command:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://192.168.1.147/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map&layer=states&mode=map">http://192.168.1.147/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map&layer=states&mode=map</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">msLoadMap(): Unable to access file. (/ms4w/apps/tutorial/htdocs/example1-1.map)</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "> I noticed that the example1-1.map was not in the htdocs file in the file tree that I downloaded, but it was in the mapfile folder.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif">I still got the same error.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif">I searched around for the solutions on the web, but I didn't really understand them. I think the problem is that I can't find the web root where the files should be stored.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif">I looked in the httpd.config file and saw that the ServerRoot was "/usr" so I added the tutorial files in that folder, but again no solution. What am I doing wrong?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, serif">I would appreciate any help you can provide?</font></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Andrew Lewin, M.Sc., Adv. Dipl. GIS</div><div>President</div><div>Spatial-Conserve Inc.</div><div><a href="http://www.spatialconserve.com">www.spatialconserve.com</a></div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:alewin@spatialconserve.com">alewin@spatialconserve.com</a></div><div>Tel: (905) 639-4646</div><div>Mobile: (905) 630-8441</div><div>Skype: andrew.lewin99</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>