[Mapserver-users] Problems with demo...

[Ed McNierney]

Pablo -

Thank!  That's VERY different from a "black" image, as you'll come to understand <g>.

What that means is that the map image is not accessible to your browser.  This can have a few causes:

1. The tmp file directory path is not correct.
2. The Web server does not have permission to write files to that directory
3. The tmp file URL is not correct.

But the MapServer CGI is running!

First, look at the source of the HTML page you have (with the map frame and controls).  You should be able to find the URL of the map image.  Is that URL what you expect?  The URL should be pointing to a file in your tmp directory.  Does it do that?

If it looks like it's a reasonable URL pointing to the right directory, look in the tmp directory.  Are there any images there?

I'm guessing, but the most likely cause is that you have not given the anonymous Web user (the IUSR_<machinename> account, typically, on IIS) permission to write files to the tmp directory, so MapServer cannot generate the output images.  By default, anonymous Web visitors don't get ANY permission to write files on your server, so you need to be sure your Web server is set up to do that.

	- Ed

Ed McNierney
President and Chief Mapmaker
TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
North Chelmsford, MA  01863
ed at topozone.com
(978) 251-4242 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pablo Toapanta [mailto:pablo_vtn at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:21 PM
To: Ed McNierney
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [Mapserver-users] Problems with demo...

Ed

Sorry about my explanation, when I open the demo.html file the browser shows a map frame and some controls, but the map image is missing with a "broken link" icon. What could be the problem?

Thanks

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