Availibility on NT

[Doug Nebert]

I don't think you can do this on either platform because 
the relationship of the template, the .map file, and the mapserv
executable are all well-known in a web server. It might be possible 
but you might have to dig in code to find the connections.

I am running mapserver both on Linux and NT and pound for pound 
the Linux service seems a bit faster. On either one you will need 
to schedule garbage collection (literally deleting GIFs/PNGs made
as requests in your scratch directory). I find this easier with 
cron than the "at" scheduler of NT. 

Doug.

bfischer at usgs.gov wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
>      I am a new user to mapserver.  I have a couple of initial questions.
> I have to make a decision about whether to develop my application on NT or
> UNIX.  Has anyone ran into any problems using the NT port of mapserver?  I
> was also wondering if you have to have the application on the web portion
> of the server or can you just keep it on the file system and use path
> names.  Like this
> file:///M:/00106/web_watershed/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=M:/00106/web_watersheds/basins.map
> 
>      I tried this on the NT and it did not work.  Maybe I am not doing it
> right, but it doesn't seem to like the drive letter in the path.
> 
> any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> Brian Fischer
> USGS WRD
> Mounds View, MN

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