<div dir="ltr">You could try changing the form method from POST to GET in the initialization file(secondo_i.html) to see what the map value is being sent as. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jukka.rahkonen@mmmtike.fi" target="_blank">jukka.rahkonen@mmmtike.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">I don’t know what really fails because I have never used Mapserver this way. However, the error message seems to be true.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">When using Mapserver trough WMS the same message comes with a request
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://hip.latuviitta.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=getcapabilities" target="_blank">http://hip.latuviitta.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=getcapabilities</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">If map parameter is used with an invalid value the error message is different<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://hip.latuviitta.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=getcapabilities&map=foo" target="_blank">http://hip.latuviitta.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=getcapabilities&map=foo</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Have a look at the code and think if the name of your mapfile really goes into [map].<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sorry I have sent the first message for error, I conclude it in this post<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">the template file text is:<br>
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<!-- MapServer Template </span>--><br>
<html><br>
<head><title>Seconda Mappa</title></head><br>
<body><br>
<form name="the_form" method=GET action="[program]"><br>
<table width="100%"><br>
<tr><br>
<td width="60%"><br>
<input name="img" type="image" src="[img]" width=640 height=480 order=2>
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</td><br>
<td width="40%" align="left"><br>
<table border="1" width="300"><br>
<tr><br>
<td align="center" colspan=3"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Ricarica"><br>
</td><br>
</tr><br>
<tr><br>
<td align="center" colspan="3">Zoom</td><br>
</tr><br>
<tr><br>
<td align="right" width="100"><br>
Zoom In<br>
<input type=radio name=zoomdir value=1 [zoom_dir_1_check]<br>
</td><br>
<td align="right" width="100"><br>
Size<br>
<input type=text name=zoomsize size=2 value=[zoomsize]><br>
</td><br>
</tr><br>
<tr><br>
<td align="center" colspan="3"><br>
Pan<br>
<input type=radio name=zoomdir value=0 [zoomdir_0_check]><br>
</td><br>
</tr><br>
</table><br>
<hr size="1"><br>
<table><br>
<tr><br>
<td colspan="3"><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="layer" value="Regioni" [Regioni_check]><br>
Regioni<br>
</td><br>
</tr><br>
<tr><br>
<td colspan="3"><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="layer" value="Fiumi" [Fiumi_check]><br>
Fiumi<br>
</td><br>
</tr><br>
<tr><br>
<td colspan="3"><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="layer" value="Province" [Province_check]><br>
Province<br>
</td><br>
</tr><br>
</table><br>
</td><br>
</tr> <br>
</table><br>
<input type="hidden" name="imgxy" value="320 240"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="imgext" value="[mapext]"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="map" value="[map]"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="program" value="[program]"><br>
</form><br>
</body><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal">My question is what I miss in my exercise.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal">Can anyone help me?<br>
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And sorry for to have split the message in two post.<br>
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With thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2014-05-14 14:58 GMT+02:00 Enrico Fiore <<a href="mailto:enricofiore80@gmail.com" target="_blank">enricofiore80@gmail.com</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tried to create a simple map application whit zoom and pan capabilities, following the instructions contained in the book "Beginning MapServer".<br>
I created a map file (secondo.map), an initialization file (secondo_i.html) and a template file (secondo.html).<u></u><u></u></p>
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When I lunch the command <br>
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<a href="http://localhost/secondo_i.html" target="_blank">http://localhost/secondo_i.html</a>
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msCGILoadMap(): Web application error. CGI variable "map" is not set. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I work with Mapserver 6.4.1-2 and OS: Ubuntu 14.04<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal">Text contained in initialization file:<br>
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<html><br>
<head><title>MapServer Seconda mappa</title></head><br>
<body><br>
<form method=POST action="/cgi-bin/mapserv"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Clicca qui"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="program" value="/cgi-bin/mapserv"<br>
<input type="hidden" name= "map" value = "/home/enrico/mapserverdata/secondo.map"><br>
<input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" size=2 value=2><br>
<input type="hidden" name="layers" value="Regioni Fiumi Province"><br>
</form><br>
</body><br>
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