[mapserver-users] Mapplet problems.

[Thomas Bartlett]

G'Day All,

I have only started using MapServ but it is really good to work with.  At
present I am running it on an XP machine with IIS 5.1 and Internet Explorer
6.0.2.  I just download the MapServ Win binarys and it all work fine (with a
HTML interface). However when I tried to run Mapplet, I keep getting the
following error,

    exception: com.ms.security.SecurityExceptionEX [mapplet.init]: cannot
access "localhost":80

I can't figure it out.  It is an XP problem or a Mapplet issue ??  I have
tried changing a number of things in the demo.html, the demo_init.html, I
have even gone through the code supplied with Mapplet (I didn't change or
re-compile it though).

Any Ideas.

Tom Bartlett



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hankley, Chip" <Chip.Hankley at GASAI.Com>
To: "Seth Rodriguez" <srodriguez at maguiregroup.com>;
<mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:33 AM
Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] beginner getting started


> > I am running XP on my machine. Will this be a problem? I can move
> > to another machine if needed.
>
> This shouldn't be a problem. The first thing you need to do is make sure
> that you have a functioning web service. I'm not an XP person, but Win2K
Pro
> gives you the option to install IIS (Internet Information Service) as a
web
> server. You could also go through the process of installing Apache (free).
> Start off by looking up "IIS" in help, and see how to install it.
>
> As others have mentioned before, the OS you use is irrelevant. All
platforms
> come with their pro's and con's... if you are comfortable working in the
> windows environment, then stick with that... otherwise you'll be adding
one
> more thing to the things you need to figure out.
>
> The executables are not bundled with the demo (at least they didn't used
to
> be). From the main web site, look under downloads. You will see that there
> are "pre-compiled binaries" - you should choose one of these. This will
have
> an executable (mapserv.exe) - this should get you started.
>
> > I hope that I am not biting off too much with this task.
>
> There is undoubtedly a learning curve...