[mapserver-users] How to run MapServer with Tomcat 4.1?

Fri Nov 8 14:23:33 EST 2002

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to run MapServer Demo Application with Tomcat 4.1 from Apache.
If I have well understood the documention about it (
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/cgi-howto.html ), my CGI
script has to be placed in the WEB-INF folder of my web application.

My web.xml file seems like that:

<web-app>
  <display-name>MapServer Demo</display-name>
  <description>
     MapServer Demo Application
  </description>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>clientInputTimeout</param-name>
          <param-value>100</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>debug</param-name>
          <param-value>6</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>cgiPathPrefix</param-name>
          <param-value>WEB-INF/cgi-bin</param-value>
        </init-param>
         <load-on-startup>5</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>cgi</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/cgi-bin/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

And my demo_init.html file seems like that:

<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.exe">

<input type="hidden" name="map" value="C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Tomcat
4.1/webapps/mapserver_demo/demo.map">
<input type="hidden" name="layer" value="lakespy2">
<input type="hidden" name="layer" value="dlgstln2">
<input type="hidden" name="zoomsize" value=2>

<input type="hidden" name="program" value="/cgi-bin/mapserv.exe">
<input type="hidden" name="map_web_imagepath" value="C:/Program Files/Apache
Group/Tomcat 4.1/webapps/mapserver_demo/tmp/">
<input type="hidden" name="map_web_imageurl"
value="http://localhost:8080/mapserver_demo/tmp/">

<center><input type="submit" value="Initialize"></center>

</form>

<p><hr><p>

If anyone could help me, it would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Marc-André