[mapserver-users] newbie question :

Wed Feb 13 13:06:54 EST 2002

You've commented out your image url path:
>  #IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
> #IMAGEURL "/ms_demo/"
You need to point to your directory containing the images, and the path is
from the htdocs dir. (if it is apache).
> Hi
>
> I've installed mapserver 3.4 on linux machine running Suse 7.2
> Every things works perfectly well. When I run http://myserver/cgi-bin/mapserv,
> I've got the following answer : No query information to decode. QUERY_STRING is
> set, but empty.
> If I understand well it means that mapserver is correctly installed
> Am I right ?
>
> I've downloaded the demo. When I run the demo_init.html I can see the fisrt
> window and when I click on the initialize button I can see the demo interface
> but not the map.
> When I look in the directory where I put the mapserver demo I can see that the
> DEMO1215465488.gif has been created.
> So why can I can't see the gif file in my browser ?
>
> My demo.map  :
> #
> # Start of map file
> #
> NAME DEMO
> STATUS ON
> SIZE 600 600
> SYMBOLSET symbols/symbols.sym
> EXTENT 388107.634400379 5203120.88405952 500896.339019834 5310243.30613897
> UNITS METERS
> SHAPEPATH "data"
> IMAGECOLOR 255 255 255
>
> #
> # Start of web interface definition
> #
> WEB
>   HEADER demo_header.html
>   TEMPLATE demo.html
>   FOOTER demo_footer.html
>   MINSCALE 1000
>   MAXSCALE 1550000
> #  IMAGEPATH "/usr/local/apache/htdocs/tmp/"
> IMAGEPATH "/home/site_intranet/mapserver/ms_demo/"
>  #IMAGEURL "/tmp/"
> #IMAGEURL "/ms_demo/"
>     # LOG "demo.log"
> END and the rest of the file
>
> My demo_init.html :
>
> <html>
> <head><title>MapServer Demo Interface</title></head>
> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> <center><h2>MapServer Demo Interface</h2></center>
> <p><hr><p>
> Click on the initialize button to fire up the demo with 3 layers turned on will
> be accessible for browsing. The
> data are of Itasca County, MN and were derived, for the most part, from USGS
> 1:24,000 quadrangles. Some things to note are:
> <form method=GET action="/cgi-bin/mapserv">
> <input type="hidden" name="map"
> value="/home/site_intranet/mapserver/ms_demo/demo.map">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakes">
> <input type="hidden" name="layer" value="streams">
> <input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>
> <center><input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>
> </form>
> <p><hr><p>
> </body></html>
>
> Any suggestions  ?
>
> TIA
>
> Stef
>

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