[mapserver-users] Re: your mail

Tue Mar 26 08:03:47 EST 2002

When you run the cgi through your browser and the reference map fails to
load, if you look at the page source or at /var/log/httpd/error_log on the
apache server do you see any errors?
Lowell F.

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Gumli deMoria wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new with mapserver and I'm still in installing and configuring phase.
> Also I'm new with linux so my problems are even bigger.
>
> I've obtained mapserv CGI and placed it on apache/cgi-bin/ directory.
>
> I've tryed a demo for mapserver but I have problems with it. The page load
> but the reference map doesn't appear. I have compiled with support for gif,
> png, jpg, etc.
>
> when I execute ./mapserv in the command line in the cgi-bin directory I
> obtain this:
>
>
> >./mapserv
> Content-type: text/html
>
> <HTML>
> <HEAD><TITLE>MapServer Message</TITLE></HEAD>
> <!-- MapServer version 3.5 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP
> SUPPORTS=TTF INPUT=TIFF INPUT=EPPL7 INPUT=JPEG INPUT=SHAPEFILE -->
> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
> loadMap(): Web application error. CGI variable "map" is not set.
> </BODY></HTML>
>
>
> I followed the "MapServer Unix Compilation and Installation HOWTO" and there
> is told that after ./mapserv I should obtain the following instead of wich I
> obtain:
>
> ./mapserv
> This script can only be used to decode form results and
> should be initiated as a CGI process via a httpd server.
>
> So, I don't know where's the problem. Any help will be welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Carlos.
>
>
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