[mapserver-users] Starting out with WMS Client/server

[Tyler Mitchell]

Thanks Paul,

>Rather than trusting cubewerx to Do the Right Thing, first try your
>system by constructing valid WMS getimage URL by hand and seeing what it
>does. Then you can procede from there to debug the cubewerx interaction.

I got things working now!
But I'm still not quite sure on some syntax of the resource url.
I.e. the docs give the example:
http://my.host.com/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=mywms.map&REQUEST-GetCapabilities
My question is how does "/cgi-bin/mapserv?" know where to get "mywms.map"?
I can see how the wrapper script helps direct this, but how would you do it
without the wrapper?  Do you put the map file in the cgi-bin folder?  How
does it find it?

Tyler

p.s. any further comments on dumping postgis database for easy transfer to
another user?