<div dir="ltr">Hello Mapserver Community,<div><br></div><div>I am still trying to grasp the concepts of GIS on a whole and I have a few preliminary questions that I could use a little more detail about Mapserver. Currently I am getting a msLoadMap(): Unable to access fille error with mapserv reading my mapfile within my IIS server even though I have the security setup correctly on my IIS.</div>
<div> I am running Mapserver as a WMS with:</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
IIS 8.5: Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mapserver: 6.0.3</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">MS4W: 3.0.6</div></div><div><br></div><div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I also think I am still confused about WMS as a whole. From my understanding you have </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
SHAPEPATH-this seems to draw your vector data from shapefiles stored on the server.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IMAGEPATH- the URL where the temporary image file is created from the shapefiles</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IMAGEURL- Base URL for IMAGEPATH</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I think as far as the WMS METADATA is where I get a tad confused. Is all the metadata just information being read from another WMS/database and then projected onto the map? </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">WMS_title is the name of the server I am pulling the info from</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
wms_onlineresource is the url where the map is</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">wms_srs is the projection of the map</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">so from what I understand you project these layers form your browser. So when you project these layers do you also project the shapefiles over these layers from the Shapepath as well? </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> I know the goal of our Mapserver is to receive data from POSTGIS databases and Microsoft SQL databases and then potentially NOSQL down the road. I think I may be getting hung up on these test mapfiles but I figured getting these local files should be the first step in understanding Mapserver as a whole. </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thank you,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tim</div>
</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Timothy Nasman</div><div>Data Analyst | Programmer<br>Rolling Leaf Inc.<br></div><div>[V] : <font color="#1155cc"><a href="tel:910.274.1436" value="+19102741436" target="_blank">910.274.1436</a></font><br>
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