[Mapserver-users] Mandrake 9 installation

[Mark Balman]

Hi List

Firstly I greatly appreciate all your help. For the record, as a relative
newbie to Linux, the biggest problem has been getting the required libraries
installed correctly. Here is my somewhat muddled attempt to get mapserver
compiled on mandrake 9 :-)

I unpacked all the required libraries to /usr/local  and then installed

Proj-4.4.7
gdal-1.1.8
Shapelib-1.2.10
GD-2.0.12
Mapserver 3.6.5

I then added /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf  and running ldconfig after
each make install

I then ran ./configure --with-gdal --with-proj and then ran make which
created the mapserv binary. I have copied this to /var/www/html/cgi-bin
(Mandrake defaults) 

I installed the itasca demo to /var/www/html and edited the demo_init.html
accordingly. Now when I point the browser to
http//www.localhost/itasca/demo_init.html I get the Mapserver Demo Interface
page to display but when clicking the Initialize button I get the 403
Forbidden message.

I then did chmod o+x mapserv to change the permission but I still get the
message.. 

Any further assistance would be most welcome!

TIA

Mark