[Mapserver-users] Fw: Error installing MapServer

[Mario Servin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mario Servin" <mservin at tecnoaccion.com.ar>
To: "Swaminathan, Gayathri" <gayathri at ou.edu>
Cc: <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Error installing MapServer


> Dear Gayathri,
>     I am a bit of giving up with this!. Finally I could retreive a map but
> only from a command prompt console:
> C:\Program Files\MapServer>mapserv "QUERY_STRING=map=c:\Documents and
> Settings\mario\MyPages\itasca\demo.map&mode=map"
> That gave a map and told me :
> Content-type: image/gif
> GIF87a ....and all the meaningless characters that correspond to the image
> follow.
>
>     But, but, FROM the browser there is a big problem!!. I checked the
logs
> of my WebServer and find a 502 code that means "bad gateway" that does not
> tell me nothing. I suspect that my IIS configuration does not allow the
> execution of any cgi executable. I am now investigating why this can
happen.
> At first sight it seems to be all ok. I gave "Executables (includes
> scripts)" permission to the virtual directory where the mapserv.exe is.
Also
> I set the access to this folder  to the IUSR_XXXX in the same way I set
the
> other folder of my site, but nothing happened. Additionally my XP does not
> allow me to set user by user the permissions for folders as I used to in
my
> old W2K!. But I don't think it mus be a problem. Nevertheless, every time
I
> tried, I got the infamous message:
> CGI Error
> The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set
of
> HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:
>
>     It seems there is no one out there that could successfully run the
> MapServer in a Windows XP.
>     Finally I found at Microsoft a page indicating that when a CGI
> executable can not run , maybe there is a malformation of the header and
> they give some instructions to debug the cgi program, but I will need  the
> Visual Studio to do that, so I am trying to get it.
>     Conclusion: I think there is something wrong with the binaries of both
> available versions I tried , 4.0 and 3.6 for working in a Win32
enviroment.
> If it is the case there are a lot of people that would be left aside in
this
> project....
>     Regards,
>                 Mario
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Swaminathan, Gayathri" <gayathri at ou.edu>
> To: <mservin at tecnoaccion.com.ar>
> Cc: <mailto:mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Error installing MapServer
>
>
> > Hi Mario,
> >
> > Here is the list archive for the "No query information to decode.
> > QUERY_STRING not set."
> >
> >
>
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0211/msg00220.html
> >
> > HTH,
> > Gayathri
> >
>