[mapserver-users] MapServer Demo Problems

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Stephen,

A couple things:

1) Hit the url http://myhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe and you should get back
"No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is set, but empty." which
will tell if you have cgi scripts run on the server and mapserv instaled
correctly.

2) Somebody else jump in here, but I think you want all your paths to
contain '/' chars and not '\' chars - but I could be wrong on this. At
least check the documentation.

HTH,
  -Steve

"Stephen D. King" wrote:
> 
> Hello Steve,
> 
> I have a query about the installation of the MapServer demo - I wondered if
> anyone can help?
> 
> I have installed the software onto a Windows NT server into a folder called
> mapserver, and followed all the instructions. When I click on the
> Initialize button I get the following message in the browser window:
> 
> The system cannot find the file specified.
> 
> And the following URL:
> 
> http://myhost/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=c%3A%5CInetpub%5Cwwwroot%5Cmapserver%5Cms_demo%5Cdemo.map&layer=lakes&layer=streams&zoomsize=2
> 
> I'm not sure what file it is referring to. I do have the mapserv.exe in the
> cgi-bin, and the path is correct.
> 
> In the demo_footer.html file I have the following path set:
> 
> img border="2" src="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe?map=[map]
> &queryfile=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\tmp\DEMO[id].qy[get_layers]
> &mode=map&size=200+200"
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> in the demo_init.html file the form action is set to:
> 
> /cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
> 
> and the hidden value to:
> 
> c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mapserver\ms_demo\demo.map
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> in the demo.html file I have the form action set to:
> 
> /cgi-bin/mapserv.exe
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> in the demo.map file I have set the paths to:
> 
> IMAGEPATH "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\tmp\
> IMAGEURL "/tmp/
> 
> I have created the tmp folder and set the permissions on it to write.
> 
> Hope you can help,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stephen