<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Sebastian,<div><br></div><div>I think that book is probably written before MapServer 5.0 came out, and examples in the book are all for MapServer 4, and you've downloaded MS4W or FGS which has MapServer 5.x. If you want you can include the application code and steps you are doing in an email to this mailing list and we can help you configure it for MapServer 5.</div><div><br></div><div>Or, since you said you are using MS4W (which I am familiar with), once you have extracted it at a drive root and installed apache (apache-install.bat), gone to 127.0.0.1 in a browser, now you can go back to the MS4W download page and download the add-on packages for MS4W (such as OpenLayers, Chameleon). Extract them at the same drive root, restart apache, go back to 127.0.0.1, and you'll have similar applications running locally (with no configuration needed) as those mentioned in your book.</div><div><br></div><div>Have fun!</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>---</div><div>Jeff McKenna</div><div>FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services</div><div><div><a href="http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/">http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/</a></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On 27-Jun-08, at 4:12 PM, Scott Mitchell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hmmm... I haven't run into that... are you sure you're specifying the URL correctly? Is the cgi-bin directory configured to be a cgi servable directory in your web server configuration?<div><br></div><div>I'll copy this to the local OSGEO mailing list, as there are lots more experienced mapserve people there, maybe one has a suggestion. Beyond that, the mapserv forums are probably going to be more helpful than me on this question.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Scott</div><div><br><div><div>On 26 Jun 2008, at 16:45, Sebastian Pawlak wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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: 0; "><div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi Scott,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm trying to figure out how to use mapserver before school starts and i'm having difficulty with my FGS package that I installed on ubuntu 8. I was having the same problem with the ms4w package too. The problem is that everytime I try to view my map I get a message prompting me to download mapserv.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Every demo application that I try to use I get the same message;</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Opening mapserv</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">you have chosen to open</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mapserv</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">which is a: BIN file</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">from /home/sebastian/mapserver/www/cgi-bin</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I was hoping you could help me find the problem. I bought the book "Beginning Mapserver: Open Source GIS" and I am using the first application that the book has which is a Hello.map script that refuses to run.</div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Ottawa_users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org">Ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ottawa_users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>