Find Helps

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Eric and other NT MapServer users out there:
  You can download the MapServer demo for NT from
http://128.101.73.80/ms_demo/ms_demo.zip.  I decided not to attach it to
this mail as it is fairly sizable (1.7 MB).

-Perry Nacionales

----- Original Message -----
From: Pericles S. Nacionales
To: mapserver-users at lists ; Rappa
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Find Helps


Hi, Eric

  Let's see...  If you really want to work on Windows NT you probably should
think about compiling MapServer for yourself.  That said, there is a
compiled binary available from the the MapServer site.  This is probably
what you would want to do initially.
  I assume you know about web servers already.  If not, then you need to
install a web server on your computer--a couple of free ones:  Microsoft IIS
(free to use) and Apache.org's Apache server (free to use and modify code).
You'll need to copy the MapServer executable to your web server's cgi-bin
directory.  From there you can start using MapServer.
  Now, you also would want to download the symbol files and put it
somewhere--doesn't have to be a web accesible directory.  Now my suggestion
would be to download the MapServer demo and get it to work on your server.
If you would like to see the demo running on Windows NT, check
http://128.101.73.80/mapserv/demo_init.html.
  You can also look at http://128.101.73.154/projects/tutorial to get
started on MapServer--this site is also running on Windows NT.  It works
fairly well except for the last example (prblems with the java applet).
  Well this should keep you busy for a while.  If you have more questions
send it to the mapserver-users list.  One final thing, MapServer on NT
hasn't really been rigorously tested and isn't considered to be as stable as
the ports on UNIX systems.  Hopefully, it will work just fine for what you
want to do.

Good luck!

-Perry N.

Pericles S. Nacionales
Research Assistant
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota

pnaciona at gis.umn.edu
(612) 625 5765
----- Original Message -----
From: Rappa
To: steve.lime at dnr.state.mn.us
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 8:07 AM
Subject: Find Helps


Hi Steve,

Nice to meet you! I am a new user of mapserver, I come from Hong Kong,
studing GIS and I am a final year student. I want to make a network model
and put it in the web. I saw mapserver can free for develop web map, that
great. But I have a big problem, that I have no more experience in
programming. Actually I really want to make a web map for my project.

I using arcview 3.2, and network anaylst for my gis system. Also the server
I prefer WinNT4.0 than the Unix.

Now I looking someone can carry me to make a web map server. I will
appreciate more, if anyone can help.

Thanks a lot,
Eric Tang