[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Layers

[Fawcett, David]

Bob, 

Are you using the MS4W distribution, or did you install it yourself?  

With MS4W, I can hit the MapServer executable with this URL:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe

David.

PS.  For more help, I would suggest switching over to the
mapserver-users or ms4w mailing list.  

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Bob Pawley
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Thanks

I am attempting to establish Mapserver.

One of the tests to see that Mapserver is running is to query the
version 
through the command line. This was successful.

Another test is to send http://your.domain.name/cgi-bin/ms4/mapserv.exe
.

I've tried 'localhost', 'localhost.localdomain' and 
'localhost.localdomain.apache' with no luck.

Can someone suggest a solution. As you can see I'm new to this.

Bob



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From: "Fawcett, David" <David.Fawcett at state.mn.us>
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OpenLayers could consume the PostGIS data through MapServer, served
either as a WMS/WFS or as a direct MapServer call.

David.

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Miles Fidelman
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:07 PM
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Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Bob Pawley wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am looking at Open Layers to display Postgis data.
>>
>> I have a couple of questions to start.
>>
>> - Can Open Layers connect directly to Postgis or does it require 
>> other software?
>>
>> - Is there documentation that shows how to make the connections and 
>> put the system together??
>>
didn't see any detailed answer to this, so...

I believe that Open Layers needs to talk to a WMS or WFS service, rather

than directly executing SQL against a datatabase (PostGIS or otherwise).

A pretty standard configuration is to run Geoserver (geoserver.org) w/
postgis.  Mapserver (mapserver.gis.umn.edu) might be another option.

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